The European Union has introduced provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of the calorie-free sweetener erythritol from China. According to the Official Journal of the EU, an additional tariff rate of 156.7% will now be levied on goods from China’s largest erythritol manufacturer, Sanyuan. For exports from other manufacturers in China, rates ranging from 31.9 to 235.6% will apply, according to the decree published on Friday evening. The reason given for the measure is that prices for erythritol are not the result of the free working of market forces but are influenced by significant state i…