5‑Year 35.35% Tariffs: Blow to China Tire Exports(August 25)
Breaking: Up to 35.35% Tariffs Locked in for Another 5 Years, Chinese Tire Exports Face Devastating Blow
On August 19, 2026, the Internal Market Protection Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission released the final disclosure of the second sunset review of the anti-dumping investigation against Chinese truck tires (Announcement No. 2026/503/AD18R4). The document explicitly recommends continuing to impose anti-dumping duties on truck tires originating from China for a period of 5 years, with rates maintained at 14.79% to 35.35% unchanged. This means that the high trade barriers facing Chinese truck tire exports to the Eurasian Economic Union will continue to intensify.
The products involved are new pneumatic rubber tires with rim diameters between 17.5 and 24.5 inches (inclusive), used for trucks, buses, semi-trailers, and other vehicles, corresponding to Eurasian Economic Union tariff codes 4011201000, 4011209000, and 8708709909.
The investigating authority determined that if the existing anti-dumping duties were removed, the dumping of the subject products and the resulting injury to the Union's domestic industry would likely continue or recur. Therefore, it recommended maintaining Resolution No. 154 of 2015 unchanged. The case still has a window period, with interested parties able to submit comments and opinions by September 2.
This case represents a long-standing trade barrier spanning over a decade. Since the formal investigation was initiated in 2014 and the first five-year anti-dumping duties were imposed in 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union extended them in the first sunset review in 2021 until June 2026. Following the launch of the second sunset review in November 2025, the tariff validity period was temporarily extended to November 13 in March of this year. This final disclosure essentially confirms the core conclusion of another five-year extension.
The Eurasian Economic Union is a core market for Chinese truck tire exports to the CIS region. The continuation of this policy has significantly differentiated impacts on domestic enterprises. For small and medium-sized enterprises lacking overseas production capacity and relying on domestic exports, the high tariffs will severely damage their price competitiveness, putting them at risk of order loss. However, leading enterprises with overseas bases in Southeast Asia, North Africa, and other regions can effectively circumvent the barriers through localized supply, limiting their exposure.
In recent years, Chinese tires have faced trade frictions from multiple countries, with mounting pressure on overseas expansion. The prolonged tariff barriers are forcing the industry to accelerate transformation and upgrading, pushing enterprises from low-price competition toward high-end, differentiated development, and accelerating overseas capacity deployment to diversify risks.
Industry experts urgently remind that relevant export enterprises should seize the window period to actively participate in the proceedings, while comprehensively self-checking tariff classification and export models to avoid anti-circumvention risks, and stabilize their overseas business through product upgrading and market diversification.
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