EU imposes measures to curb ethanol imports from Pakistan
The European Commission has revoked tariff preferences for non-fuel ethanol imports from Pakistan, citing market disruption from a surge in cheap imports. Pakistani ethanol, which comprised over 25% of EU imports in 2023, saw a nearly 300% rise since 2021. The move follows EU producers’ complaints of price pressures and aims to protect domestic ethanol markets.
The European Commission has ended tariff preferences for non-fuel ethanol imports from Pakistan, answering EU ethanol makers’ calls that a surge in cheap imports from the Asian country was pressuring prices and disturbing markets.
Last year, ethanol imports from Pakistan accounted for more than a quarter of all non-fuel ethanol imports, making Pakistan the largest source of imports to the EU, the Commission said in its decision published in the EU’s Official Journal on Friday.
The rise in total ethanol imports has been lasting for several years with EU customs data showing imports of non-fuel ethanol into the EU nearly doubling between 2021 and 2024 to reach 726,000 metric tons in 2024, from about 376,000 tons in 2021, it said. Of this, Pakistani ethanol imports jumped by almost 300% to 393,590 tons between 2021 and 2022 and were still 244% above 2021 imports in 2023.
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Source : Daily Times
