11 November 2026, Kyiv, UA: Ukraine’s Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade has opened an anti-dumping investigation into a group of herbicides and one fungicide imported from China, after finding evidence that import prices undercut domestic producers’ costs and that import volumes rose sharply over the past three years. The commission made its decision on November 3 and the Ministry of Economy, which has been assigned to carry out the investigation, announced it publicly on November 10.
The case was brought by Alfa Smart Agro LLC and supported by Bilotserkivsky Plant of Preparative Forms LLC. Together, the two companies account for more than half of total Ukrainian production of the pesticide types under review, which was enough for the commission to accept them as representative of the domestic industry.
Five products under scrutiny
The investigation covers five specific products, each identified by a Ukrainian customs tariff code (UKT ZED). Four are herbicides and one is a fungicide:
Active ingredient
Product type
UKT ZED code
Terbuthylazine
Herbicide
ex 3808 93 13 00
Propisochlor
Herbicide
ex 3808 93 15 90
Nicosulfuron
Herbicide
ex 3808 93 23 00
Diquat
Herbicide
ex 3808 93 27 90
Tebuconazole (single-component)
Fungicide
ex 3808 92 50 90
The commission’s preliminary finding is that import prices for these products from China were below both the complainant’s average domestic selling price and its production cost, a pattern that Ukrainian trade law treats as an indicator of dumping when paired with evidence of injury to the domestic industry.
On the injury side, the commission looked at the period from 2022 through the first half of 2025. Over that window, it found that the volume of the dumped imports rose by 44.9 percent in absolute terms. Relative to Ukraine’s own production of these pesticide types, the import volume increased by 30.4 percent, and relative to domestic consumption it rose by 21.0 percent. The commission concluded that this evidence was sufficient to justify opening a formal investigation into both dumping and injury.
No preliminary or final duty rate has been set at this stage, and the Ministry of Economy has not published a timetable for when a determination is expected. Ukrainian trade remedy investigations of this kind typically combine a period of data collection, consultation with exporters and importers, and a provisional decision before any duty is confirmed, though the commission’s announcement did not specify deadlines for these steps in this case.
China has not issued a public response to the investigation as of the announcement date. The case is part of a broader pattern of trade friction around Chinese pesticide exports this year, with China itself having opened a separate anti-dumping investigation into pesticide intermediate imports from the European Union earlier in 2026, a sign of how actively agrochemical trade flows are being contested on multiple fronts.
Ukraine’s domestic crop protection manufacturing base is smaller than that of larger agricultural exporters such as Brazil or the United States, which makes cases like this one more consequential for the handful of companies that produce actives and formulations domestically. Alfa Smart Agro and Bilotserkivsky Plant of Preparative Forms, as the complainants, have framed the case around preserving their ability to compete against lower-priced imported formulations in categories including corn and cereal herbicides and a widely used triazole fungicide.
The next formal step in the process is for the Ministry of Economy to proceed with data collection and analysis under the investigation it has been assigned. Ukrainian investigations of this type generally allow interested parties, including Chinese exporters and Ukrainian importers, to submit information and comments as part of the review before any measure is proposed.
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