Key takeaway
What This Development Means
The Eurasian Economic Commission has decided to suspend the Eurasian Economic Union's anti-dumping measure on titanium dioxide from China until 10 August 2027. The decision takes effect 10 calendar days after official publication. Until that commencement is confirmed, importers should continue applying the existing 14.27% to 16.25% producer-specific duties and price undertakings.
Are the titanium dioxide duties already suspended?
The Collegium has adopted the suspension, but the decision becomes effective only 10 calendar days after official publication. The Commission's 21 September news release is not necessarily that publication. Importers should verify the legal portal before changing declarations.
What happens after 10 August 2027?
The announced non-application runs through that date inclusive. Unless the Eurasian Economic Commission extends, amends or terminates the underlying measure, businesses should expect the existing anti-dumping framework to become relevant again and monitor for a follow-on decision.
Source basis: Eurasian Economic Commission, decision on temporary non-application of the titanium dioxide anti-dumping measure
EAEU Titanium Dioxide Anti-Dumping Suspension Is Adopted
The Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission has decided to temporarily stop applying the EAEU titanium dioxide anti-dumping measure to goods originating in China. The suspension is intended to run through 10 August 2027 inclusive.
The Commission says its analysis found grounds to suspend the measure in the interests of Eurasian Economic Union member states. The measure currently applies under Collegium Decision No. 96 of 14 October 2025 and combines producer-specific anti-dumping duties of 14.27% to 16.25% of customs value with price undertakings.
The announcement also confirms an existing route for duty-free imports outside the price-undertaking mechanism within annual volumes allocated to member states. The new suspension does not rewrite those historical arrangements or the underlying injury finding. It temporarily switches off application of the anti-dumping measure for the stated period.
Commencement Depends On Official Publication
The decision enters into force 10 calendar days after official publication. As of the 23 September verification, the Commission announcement provided that formula but the corresponding legal-portal publication date had not been confirmed. Importers should therefore not treat 21 September, the news-release date, as the commencement date.
Until effectiveness is verified, customs declarations should continue to follow the existing Decision No. 96 treatment. Once the suspension starts, importers and brokers will need updated tariff instructions and evidence that entries fall within the covered product and origin scope. Procurement and sales contracts should also be checked for duty-change clauses and timing rules for goods in transit.
Distributors and downstream manufacturers should avoid treating the suspension as a change to titanium dioxide's chemical identity, product specifications or separate safety controls. It is a customs measure with a defined geographic and temporal scope.
Titanium dioxide, CAS 13463-67-7, is widely used as a white pigment and opacifier in paints, coatings, plastics, paper, inks and other materials. Removing a 14.27% to 16.25% duty may reduce landed costs for qualifying Chinese material, but commercial outcomes will depend on supplier pricing, freight, exchange rates, customs valuation and contractual allocation.
Foresight analysis: a temporary suspension can create a sharp timing difference between otherwise similar shipments. The most immediate compliance risk is not chemical classification but using the lower treatment before the legal commencement, or failing to reinstate controls when the suspension ends. Supply-chain teams need a date-controlled customs rule, not a permanent master-data deletion.
Monitor the EAEU legal portal for official publication, update customs instructions only when the 10-day period can be calculated, and diarise 10 August 2027.
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