The UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has proposed the introduction of countervailing duties on imports of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) from the USA following an investigation launched on 17 March 2025.
The investigation found evidence that subsidised shipments were causing material injury to UK producers, the TRA said in a 28 November statement on its website.
The probe followed an application by biodiesel producers – including the Renewable Transport Fuel Association, British fuel distributor Greenergy Fuels, biodiesel producer Argent Energy and vegetable oil recycling company Olleco – concerned that the market had changed since a previous review in 2022, with evidence suggesting that the price cap had narrowed and HVO could be competing directly with UK-produced biodiesel, Biodiesel Magazine wrote on 2 December.
In the TRA’s Statement of Essential Facts, the agency set out its intended final recommendation for a fixed duty measure, with proposed countervailing duties of £257.80-£303.56 (US$343.47-US$404.43)/tonne.
Interested parties were invited to comment on the TRA’s initial findings via the Trade Remedies Service by 19 December. [2025]
The TRA said it had also terminated a parallel investigation into dumped imports of HVO biodiesel from the USA due to a lack of significant evidence of dumping.
