EAEU/EEC Board Decision No. 96: definitive anti-dumping duties on titanium dioxide from China (5-year measure, 14.27-16.25%)

Mechanism

This is the EAEU's first supranational trade-remedy action on the IPTM register — the Eurasian Economic Commission runs a unified AD/CVD/safeguard regime for all five member states (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan), distinct in instrument and jurisdiction from the EU (CR 2025/4), India (DGTR), Saudi Arabia (GAFT) and Brazil (GECEX) titanium-dioxide anti-dumping measures already filed. The investigation ran from 17 August 2023 to a final disclosure on 16 August 2024 finding dumping and material injury to EAEU producers, before the Board adopted the definitive decision on 14 October 2025 alongside a parallel measure on Chinese aluminium foil.

Titanium dioxide is a China-dominated pigment/feedstock (China supplies the majority of global TiO2 output), used across paints, coatings, plastics and paper. The duty re-prices a China -> EAEU TiO2 flow and protects EAEU (chiefly Russian and Kazakh) producers, while the price-undertaking quotas give the two named Chinese producer groups continued duty-free access up to fixed volumes — a common EEC design pattern that partially insulates downstream users from supply-shock pricing while still penalizing above-quota dumping.

Downstream implications

• First EEC/EAEU trade-defence instrument on the register — establishes a

template for tracking future EEC Board AD/CVD decisions (the Commission adopted a parallel aluminium-foil measure the same day).

• Adds a fifth jurisdiction (alongside EU, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil) now

running independent anti-dumping duties on Chinese TiO2 — a signal of broad-based, multi-bloc concern about Chinese TiO2 overcapacity/dumping rather than a single-market phenomenon.

• Price-undertaking quotas (Armenia/Belarus/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan) give a

concrete, government-set benchmark for "acceptable" Chinese TiO2 import volumes into the EAEU market that can be tracked for quota-breach signals.

Open questions

• Whether Russia has an equivalent country-specific quota or relies solely on

the ad-valorem duty (open-source reporting only confirms quotas for the other four members).

• Whether EU/EAEU sanctions-adjacent dynamics (Russia's isolation from Western

supply chains) are an independent driver of EAEU import-substitution demand for domestic TiO2 production, beyond the stated dumping/injury finding.