LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/65 of 6 January 2026 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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- (249) A company may request the application of these individual anti-dumping duty rates if it changes subsequently the name of its entity. The request must be addressed to the Commission 48. The request must contain all the relevant information enabling to demonstrate that the change does not affect the right of the company to benefit from the duty rate which applies to it. If the change of name of the company does not affect its right to benefit from the duty rate which applies to it, a regulation about the change of name will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
- (250) All interested parties were informed of the essential facts and considerations on the basis of which it was intended to recommend that the existing measures be maintained. They were also granted a period to make representations subsequent to this disclosure.
- (251) In view of Article 109 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council 49 when an amount is to be reimbursed following a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the interest to be paid should be the rate applied by the European Central Bank to its principal refinancing operations, as published in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Union on the first calendar day of each month.
- (252) The measures provided for in this regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal solution, currently falling under CN code 3102 80 00 , and originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States of America.
The rates of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the product described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
| Country | Company | Fixed amount of duty (EUR per tonne) | TARIC additional code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | PJSC Acron | 42,47 | C500 |
| Russia | Joint Stock Company ‘Azot’ | 27,77 | C501 |
| Russia | Joint Stock Company ‘Nevinnomyssky Azot’ | 27,77 | C504 |
| Russia | All other imports originating in Russia | 42,47 | C999 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited | 22,24 | C502 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | All other imports originating in Trinidad and Tobago | 22,24 | C999 |
| United States of America | CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 29,48 | C503 |
| United States of America | All other imports originating in the United States of America | 29,48 | C999 |
The application of the individual duty rates for the Russian companies mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation to the Member States’ customs authorities of a valid commercial invoice, on which shall appear a declaration dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by his/her name and function, drafted as follows: ‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume in tonnes) of (product under review) sold for export to the European Union covered by this invoice was manufactured by (company name and address) (TARIC additional code) in Russia. I declare that the information provided in this invoice is complete and correct.’ Until such invoice is presented, the duty applicable to all other imports originating in Russia shall apply.
Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 6 January 2026.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1688 of 8 October 2019 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America (OJ L 258, 9.10.2019, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/1688/oj).
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2070 of 26 October 2022 to not suspend the definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of mixture of urea and ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1688 (OJ L 277, 27.10.2022, p. 208, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2022/2070/oj).
Notice of initiation of an expiry review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America (OJ C, C/2024/5996, 8.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5996/oj).
Panel Report, EU – Cost Adjustment Methodologies II (Russia), WT/DS494/R, para. 8.1 and Section 7 ‘Findings’ of the Panel Report.
Panel Report, EC – Fasteners (China), WT/DS397/R, para. 7.515.
Panel Report, EU – Cost Adjustment Methodologies II (Russia), WT/DS494/R.
t24.010155.
t24.010183.
t24.010186.
Judgment of 30 April 2025, Fertilizers Europe and European Commission v AO Nevinnomysskiy Azot and AO Novomoskovskaya Aktsionernaya Kompania NAK “Azot”, C-554/23 P and C-568/23 P, ECLI:EU:C:2025:291.
See, by analogy, Judgment of 11 July 2017, Viraj Profiles Ltd v Council of the European Union, Case T-67/14, ECLI:EU:T:2017:481, para. 98.
Under this scenario the normal value consisted of an ex works of Novgorod unit production cost value, adjusted by a natural gas price that Russian gas suppliers apply to European users for natural gas entering the Union at Waidhaus. To arrive at the total normal value, the applicants included a profit margin of 10 %. On that basis, the normal value amounted to EUR 199 per tonne in the review investigation period.
Dansk Korn & Foder, a trade association for the grain and feed trade in Denmark, https://dakofo.dk/.
The verified data submitted by CFI showed exports to the Union of more than 550 000 tonnes in the review investigation period. This is more than the import volume reported by Eurostat (see Table 2).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/576 of 10 April 2019 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America (OJ L 100, 11.4.2019, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/576/oj).
See also Panel Report, EU – Footwear (WT/DS405/R), para. 7.403.
Council Regulation (EC) No 194/1999 of 25 January 1999 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of hardboard originating in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia and definitively collecting the provisional duties imposed (OJ L 22, 29.1.1999, p. 16, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1999/194/oj), recitals 39-41.
Council Regulation (EC) No 703/2009 of 27 July 2009 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of wire rod originating in the People’s Republic of China and terminating the proceeding concerning imports of wire rod originating in the Republic of Moldova and Turkey (OJ L 203, 5.8.2009, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/703/oj), recitals 58-64.
No meaningful index possible due to the absence of imports in 2021.
No meaningful index possible due to the absence of imports in 2021.
The fertiliser industry had not been significantly affected by COVID-19 pandemic, in light of the piece of research available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420721000362 (Influence of COVID-19 pandemic on fertilizer companies: The role of competitive advantages, Resources Policy, Volume 71, 2021, 102019, ISSN 0301-4207).
t25.011233.
Commission Decision of 27 June 2012 terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of certain concentrated soy protein products originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 168, 28.6.2012, p. 38, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2012/343/oj).
Association Française de Commercialisation et de Mélanges d’Engrais.
Provider of agricultural inputs in North-West France, http://www.inoxa.fr/.
t24.010911 (Union Invivo), slide 9.
Press article ‘Fertilizer market anticipates little impact from updated Russian export quotas’ dated 25 October 2024, available at https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/fertilizers/102524-fertilizer-market-anticipates-little-impact-from-updated-russian-export-quotas.
Annex I to the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adjustment of customs duties on the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America and opening of tariff quotas for imports of certain goods originating in the United States of America, COM(2025) 471 final. Brussels, 28 August 2025. Available at https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/detail?ref=COM(2025)471&lang=en.
Annex I of the modified Executive Order 12257, available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/modifying-the-scope-of-the-reciprocal-tariff-with-respect-to-certain-agricultural-products/.
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Regulation (EU) 2023/956 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 52, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/oj).
Association Générale des Producteurs de Blé et autres céréales, https://agpb.fr/missions/.
See examples in t24.011415.
See Table 3 of Agreste’s ‘Synthèses conjoncturelles’ number 432 of December 2024 available at https://agreste.agriculture.gouv.fr/agreste-web/disaron/SynGcu24432/detail/.
t24.010911 (Union Invivo).
Source: agri data portal, farm economics: https://agridata.ec.europa.eu/extensions/FADNPublicDatabase/FADNPublicDatabase.html. It is noted that in the submission t25.011255 AGPB stated that the ratio fertiliser cost / total input for specialised cereals farms (OTEX 15) was 20 % in 2023.
With UAN prices around 300 EUR/tonne, anti-dumping duties ranging 22,24-29,48 EUR/tonne for Trinidad and Tobago and the USA increased fertiliser costs of French wheat growers importing UAN by 8 %. Thus the overall effect on costs of the farmers using UAN, in the highest case scenario was estimated at 1,53 % (8 % × 19,1 %).
Résultats économiques des exploitations agricoles – France; Chiffres clés 2023, 18.12.2024 (updated on 21.1.2025), available via https://agreste.agriculture.gouv.fr/agreste-web/disaron/Chd2418/detail/.
In its submission t24.010183, the US exporting producer CFI quoted namely the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers, COM/2022/590 final of 9.11.2022, available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022DC0590.
More information is available at https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/news/eu-increases-tariff-duties-russian-and-belarusian-imports-agricultural-products-and-fertilizers#:~:text=The%20EU%20has%20imposed%20new%20tariffs%20applicable%20on,were%20not%20yet%20subject%20to%20extra%20customs%20duties.
Regulation (EU) 2025/1227 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2025 on the modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus (OJ L, 2025/1227, 20.6.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/1227/oj).
Compressed natural gas.
Liquified natural gas.
Investigation Nos 701-TA-668-669 and 731-TA-1565-1566 (Final), Publication 5338, August 2022.
European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade, Directorate G, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 170, 1040 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË.
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2026/65/oj
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