The measures aim to protect EU producers of vanillin – a food flavouring – from unfair trading practices.
Vanillin is used in flavourings, foods, perfumes and pharmaceuticals. Annual crops of naturally occurring vanillin generally satisfy less than 1% of global demand, so almost all vanillin used today is man-made.
Today’s anti-dumping duties were imposed following an investigation which showed that dumped imports of vanillin from China were harming EU industry. The duties imposed today should help EU vanillin makers to compete on a more equal footing with their Chinese counterparts.
