European Union (EU) cosmetics and toiletries companies are awaiting with interest the results of the World Trade Organisation’s Appellate Body’s decision on Indonesia’s claim that the EU’s anti-dumping duties have been unfairly placed on imported fatty alcohols from the Southeast Asian economic giant.
Fatty alcohol is made from kernel oil and is used to make cosmetics, detergents and surfactants. Responding to complaints from European manufacturers of this ingredient, the EU imposed the duties on the imports and their blends originating in Indonesia – also in India and Malaysia – from November 2011 to November 2016. They have since been renewed and are still in place – although additional countervailing (anti-subsidy) duties levied by the EU have lapsed.
The protective duties were imposed following a Commission anti-dumping investigation, which concluded that
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