HCMC – Anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Thai sugar will remain in place until June 15, 2031, after the Ministry of Industry and Trade extended the measures for another five years.
The ministry issued Decision No. 1309/QD-BCT following a sunset review of the trade remedies applied to certain sugar products from Thailand.
A separate decision issued the same day extended anti-circumvention measures on sugar products originating from Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, and Indonesia to preserve the effectiveness of the existing protections.
The ministry first imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on certain Thai sugar products in June 2021. Anti-circumvention measures covering imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, and Indonesia took effect in August 2022.
According to the investigating authority, the measures helped establish fairer competition in the domestic market and significantly reduced imports of dumped and subsidized sugar from Thailand.
Imports from Thailand fell from about 924,000 metric tons before the measures were introduced to 82,000 tons in the 2022-2023 crop year. They later rose to 274,000 tons in the 2024-2025 crop year.
The ministry reported that the domestic sugar industry has recovered since the duties were imposed. Sugar output reached more than 1.2 million tons in the 2024-2025 crop year, 1.7 times the level recorded in 2020-2021.
Industry revenue increased by 1.63 times and profit by 2.49 times compared with the period before the measures took effect.
Harvested sugarcane area expanded from 128,666 hectares in the 2020-2021 crop year to 192,660 hectares in 2024-2025. Sugarcane production rose from 6.74 million tons to 12.43 million tons during the same period.
Sugar producers also increased investment in growing areas and productivity. Average sugarcane yields rose from 60.7 tons per hectare to 73.3 tons per hectare between 2020 and 2025.
