Brussels, 13/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - After winning its case against imports of American B99 biodiesel, which have had anti-dumping and compensation duties imposed on them since March 2009 (see EUROPE 9940), the European Biodiesel Board (EBB), which represents the interests of European producers, said at the end of December that it had reviewed “all the possible legal and political options” to address the issue of growing biodiesel imports from Argentina into the Community market. These rose from less than 5,000 tonnes to almost 100,000 tonnes per month between July 2008 and July 2009, and are expected to go beyond the one million tonnes in 2009 compared with only 70,000 tonnes in 2008. The EBB explains this spectacular increase by a differential between the Argentinian 20% export tax on biodiesel and the 32% export tax on soybean oil, which creates a “clear financial incentive” to process soybean oil into biodiesel rather than export it. (E.H./transl.rt)