Britain’s Trade Remedies Authority has proposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese rutile titanium dioxide after finding that imports were being sold at unfairly low prices and posed an imminent threat of injury to domestic production.
The initial recommendation would apply for five years. Cooperating exporters, whether sampled or not, would face a 48.29 percent duty with a minimum charge of £0.665 per kilogram. Other exporters would face 63.66 percent, subject to a minimum of £0.876 per kilogram. In each case, the higher amount generated by the percentage rate or the minimum charge would apply.
Rutile titanium dioxide is a whitening pigment used in coatings, plastics and paper. The authority said Chinese imports rose sharply during its investigation, with the volume in May 2026 more than three times the level recorded a year earlier. It linked that increase partly to greater Chinese capacity and to trade measures already imposed by the European Union, Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia.
The finding is not yet a tariff order. Interested parties have until October 26 to challenge the calculations and conclusions. The authority will then send a final recommendation to the business secretary, who must decide whether to accept it under the United Kingdom’s trade-remedies framework.
That procedural distinction matters for importers and downstream manufacturers. No new duty arises merely because the authority has published an intended recommendation. The present step sets out the proposed measure and opens the last formal opportunity for evidence and objections before a ministerial decision.
The case also tests how Britain is using its independent trade-defence system. The government is trying to protect a domestic industry that employs more than 570 people without turning every increase in imports into a protective barrier. Here, the authority says the statutory conditions are met because it found both dumping and a real, immediate threat to UK production.
Official Trade Remedies Authority announcement
