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UK upholds excavator anti-dumping decision after Liugong and Cat complain
23 December 2025
UK trade body the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has upheld its final decision to impose anti-dumping duties on some Chinese excavators.
Liugong 9027FE electric excavator (Image: Liugong)
Its decision, published yesterday (22 December), came after both LiuGong Group and Caterpillar Group requested the TRA to reconsider its recommendation.
The UK government announced in May 2025 that it would accept the TRA’s recommendation for anti-dumping duty on certain types of excavator.
The process started with an application in September 2023 from JCB Heavy Products for an investigation amid allegations that excavators were being dumped into the UK market from China.
The TRA recommended that the measures apply to self-propelled, tracked excavators with an operating weight of 11 tonnes up to 80 tonnes. Different manufacturers faced different anti-dumping dutues: 20.09% for relevant machines manufactured by LiuGong; 32.82% for Sany Group; 24.32% for XCMG Group; 24.32% for Sunward; 18.81% for Caterpillar Group; and 40.08% for all other overseas exporters.
In their submissions to the TRA to reconsider the measures, LiuGong claimed that battery-electric machines should not be included within the definition of the goods and the tariff imposed.
Meanwhile, Caterpillar questioned the TRA’s calculation of the individual anti-dumping amount that was calculated for it and called for a recalculation.
But the TRA announced on 22 December 2025 that there were no grounds to vary its decision.
The anti-dumping measures are set to remain in place until May 2030.
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