EEC proposes five-year anti-dumping duties of 11-22% on Thai and Vietnamese truck tires
The Eurasian Economic Commission's internal market protection department has proposed anti-dumping duties of 11-22 percent for five years on truck tires from Thailand and Vietnam, Kommersant reported. The case was initiated by Cordiant, the Nizhnekamsk truck tire plant and Belarus' Belshina after EAEU output fell 5.6 percent and profit on sales dropped 58.7 percent in 2022-2024.
The internal market protection department of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has proposed introducing anti-dumping duties of 11-22 percent for a period of five years on truck tires supplied from Thailand and Vietnam. Kommersant reported the proposal, citing the report on the results of the anti-dumping investigation; the findings were also relayed by Lenta.ru.
The department concluded that suppliers from the two countries are causing injury to producers inside the Eurasian Economic Union, which have been forced to sell their tires below an economically justified price level in order to stay competitive against the imports. The measures, as proposed, would apply for five years.
Proposed duty rates
The investigation set individual rates for named exporters and higher residual rates for all other suppliers in each country:
- Thailand's Prinx Chengshan and Maxxis International - 17.05 percent;
- all other suppliers from Thailand - 22.37 percent;
- Vietnam's Jinyu - 11.31 percent;
- Vietnam COFO Tires - 14.99 percent;
- Sailun - 16.48 percent;
- Advance Tyre and other Vietnamese producers - 17.25 percent.
What the investigation found
The case was initiated by Russia's Cordiant and the Nizhnekamsk truck tire plant, which is part of Kama Tyres, together with Belarus' Belshina. The applicants argued that imported truck tires were consistently sold at lower prices than domestic products, squeezing their own price levels.
According to the figures cited in the report, output of truck tires across the EAEU fell 5.6 percent in 2022-2024, while capacity utilization declined 4.9 percent. Profit from sales dropped 58.7 percent over the same period - a far steeper fall than the loss of volume, indicating that producers absorbed the pressure through margins rather than through output cuts.
Importers push back
Importers of tires argued during the investigation that the duties would drive up tire prices and leave buyers without choice. They also maintained that existing manufacturing capacity within the EAEU is not sufficient to cover demand, a claim the EEC rejected. The dispute over available capacity is central to the outcome: if domestic plants cannot replace the restricted volumes, the duties translate into higher prices rather than into import substitution.
Chinese holdings behind the tariff logic
The commission's decision is also aimed at containing Chinese expansion in the segment, since a number of companies in Thailand and Vietnam belong to holdings from China. Duties on truck tires imported directly from China have been in force since 2021, and production in Southeast Asia has served as a route around them.
The cost will ultimately be passed down the chain. Dmitry Babansky, partner at SBS, said that for end consumers the introduction of the duties will translate into higher prices through an increase in freight transport tariffs. Truck tires are a recurring consumable for hauliers, so tariff-driven increases feed into logistics costs rather than staying inside the tire market.
