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EU sets definitive duties up to 67,1 % on Chinese pea protein
Chinese pea protein faces definitive duties of 40,5 % (Sanjia, cooperating firms) and 67,1 % (Shuangta, all others); provisional amounts are collected up to those rates.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 24 September 2026
Importers of Chinese pea protein now face definitive anti-dumping duties at the border. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2101 imposes definitive duties on high protein content pea proteinEuropa — containing more than 65 % protein on a dry weight basis
Europa, in all physical forms (including solid and liquid forms), whether textured or not
Europa — originating in the People's Republic of China
Europa. The duty applies to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty, and individual rates apply only against a valid commercial invoice identifying the manufacturer; without that invoice, the residual rate applies.
The definitive rates are 40,5 % for the Sanjia GroupEuropa and the other cooperating companies listed in the Annex
Europa, and 67,1 % for Yantai Shuangta Food Co. Ltd.
Europa and for all other imports from China
Europa. The duties were set at the dumping margins, which lie below the injury margins of 81,9 % for Sanjia and 130,8 % for Shuangta, in line with Article 9(4) of the basic anti-dumping Regulation (EU) 2016/1036. The product falls under a long list of CN codes — ex 3504 00 90, ex 2106 10 20, ex 2106 10 80, ex 2106 90 92, ex 2303 10 90 and numerous ex 2309 positions — with the TARIC codes and additional codes set out in Article 1 and the Annex.
Amounts secured under the provisional duties imposed by Regulation (EU) 2026/916 on 28 April 2026 are now definitively collectedEuropa, and any amount secured in excess of the definitive rates is released. For Shuangta the definitive rate of 67,1 % sits just below its provisional rate of 67,4 %, so a small excess is released; the Sanjia and cooperating-company rates are unchanged at 40,5 %.
The Commission concluded that the conditions for retroactive collection of definitive duties on registered imports were not metEuropa: average monthly import volumes after initiation — 826 tonnes for September 2025 to March 2026 and 795 tonnes including April 2026 — showed no further substantial rise over the investigation-period average of 954 tonnes, as Article 10(4) of the basic Regulation requires. The investigation itself ran from a complaint by the Ad Hoc Coalition of Union Pea Protein Producers on 15 July 2025, through initiation on 29 August 2025 and registration under Regulation (EU) 2025/2144, to provisional measures in April 2026.
New exporting producers that shipped nothing during the investigation period of 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, are unrelated to a producer subject to the measures, and have since exported or irrevocably contracted to export significant quantities may ask to be added to the cooperating-companies rate of 40,5 %. The regulation enters into force on the day following its publication in the Official JournalEuropa — publication took place on 25 September 2026
Europa.
Legal basis: Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036; provisional duties under Regulation (EU) 2026/916; registration under Regulation (EU) 2025/2144.
Importers of Chinese pea protein should apply the correct company-specific duty rate with a valid commercial invoice identifying the manufacturer, reconcile securities lodged under the provisional duty, and new exporters meeting the three Article 3 conditions should consider requesting the cooperating-companies rate.
Sources
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/2101 of 24 September 2026 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of pea protein originating in the People’s Republic of China
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/916 of 27 April 2026 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of pea protein originating in the People’s Republic of China