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Spot rates easing back doesn't undo the last few years of supplier diversification — and buyers who assume it does are about to make a lazy mistake.
Placeholder text, a cover image and a data table together, built to the same shape as the BDO product sheet shared in the handover — for review before real figures go in.
Since 22 September 2026, a definitive anti-dumping duty has applied to 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid and its sodium salt from China, known in the trade as PBTC.
Citric acid and trisodium citrate dihydrate from China have been subject to an EU anti-dumping duty since 2008.
Every morning, I use my Coaching Asia to look at what is moving in Asia and the Middle East and what it could mean for sourcing in Europe.
A suggestion on how to get Chinese market information in purchasing without paying for it.
Notes from this week in my Asia coaching — the news item itself is rarely the news. The stage it happens on is.
A fresh anti-dumping measure rarely closes a trade lane outright — it just changes who can still afford to use it, and that's the part worth watching.
In discussions with chemical producers in China and India, I am almost always shown the same figures: capacity, utilisation and price. But they only show me the production side.
57 products are in it, from lysine to terephthalic acid. Every duty currently in force, every ongoing investigation and the cases that are taking shape.
An overview of which new plants are actually starting up and which are still just announcements.
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