December 2025 proved to be a busy month for the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA), concluding with its decision not to go back on an earlier recommendation to impose a new anti-dumping measure on imports of excavators from China.
The trade protection body has issued several decision in recent weeks as it considers new proposals and also reviews measures inherited from the European Commission.
The latest case, full details of which can be found HERE, arose from requests submitted by LiuGong Group and Caterpillar Group to review an earlier decision to impose tariffs on Chinese excavators.
Caterpillar questioned the TRA’s calculation of the individual anti-dumping amount that was calculated for it as a sampled co-operating overseas exporter to the original investigation. LiuGong asked for battery electric machines to be removed from the description of the goods and all related tariffs.
Reconsideration is part of the process for imposing and reviewing trade protection measures (see Guidance) and the TRA agreed to look again at the grounds for its original decision.
However, after having done so, it has said that it can find no reason to change its recommendation (which was accepted by the Trade Secretary) to impose tariffs on imports of these goods ranging from 18.81% for a sampled exporter to 40.08% for the residual rate.
