ANI
Beijing
China has escalated trade tensions with the United States by extending tariffs on a key chemical solvent, imposing sanctions on seven US companies citing ‘security reasons’, and has threatened to halt purchases of American semiconductors, according to a report by Asia Times.
On Friday, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MoC) announced that anti-dumping duties on n-butanol imports from the US, Taiwan, and Malaysia will remain in place for another five years, effective from today.
The decision follows a sunset review initiated in December 2023 at the request of China’s domestic n-butanol producers. The review assessed whether ending the duties would result in renewed dumping practices and harm to the domestic industry.
According to the ministry’s findings, removing the anti-dumping duties would likely lead to a resumption or continuation of dumping practices and subsequent harm to China’s domestic n-butanol industry. The extended duties will maintain the same rates as those imposed in 2018, Xinhua reported.
Earlier in 2018, in accordance with the Anti-dumping Regulations of China, the country’s Ministry of Commerce had decided to initiate an anti-dumping investigation on imports of n-butanol originating in Taiwan, Malaysia and the United States.
Notably, n-Butanol is an important organic chemical raw material, mainly used to produce downstream products such as butyl acrylate, butyl acetate, dibutyl phthalate, butylamine, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, etc., and widely used in coatings, adhesives, textile auxiliaries, plasticizers and other fields.
n-Butanol is also an extractant for oils, biochemical drugs and spices, an additive for alkyd resin coatings, and is also used to manufacture surfactants. At the same time, n-Butanol is also an excellent organic solvent.
