IN BRIEF
Mexico is imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty of $68.60 per unit on adult bicycles originating in China with wheels larger than 20 inches, whatever country they arrive from. It comes on top of the 35% customs duty already levied on these bicycles under a decree of April 2026, the resolution notes. The measure applies for six months from the day after its publication in Mexico’s Official Gazette. The investigation was requested by the association of Mexican manufacturers and four companies from the country.
Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has issued its preliminary resolution in the anti-dumping investigation into Chinese adult bicycles. Signed on 28 September 2026 by Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, it sets a duty per bicycle rather than a percentage.
An anti-dumping duty of $68.60 per bicycle
The provisional duty applies to definitive and temporary imports of adult bicycles originating in China, whether they enter under tariff heading 8712.00.05 or another one. The resolution, consulted from France on 14 October, sets the duty in dollars per unit, payable in Mexican currency. The resolution specifies that the product concerned covers adult bicycles with wheels larger than 20 inches, of all types.
The authorities calculated a dumping margin of $261.71 per unit, for the exporter Shenghong as for the other Chinese exporters. Yet they set a lower duty: $68.60 is enough, they write, to bring the prices of imported bicycles back to a level that no longer harms domestic production.
On top of a 35% customs duty
This duty comes on top of another: under a decree published on 23 April 2026, bicycles entering under heading 8712.00.05 pay a 35% customs duty, the resolution notes. China carries a lot of weight in this market: it accounts on average for 94% of imports, the text states. Children’s bicycles from China are already subject to their own anti-dumping duty, the resolution also notes.
A complaint from Mexican manufacturers
The proceeding was launched on 11 April 2025 by the Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Bicicletas (ANAFABI) and the companies Bicicletas Mercurio, Bicicletas Veloci, Distribuidora de Bicicletas Benotto and Línea Siete. The opening of the investigation was published in the Official Gazette on 13 August 2025. During the investigation, the authorities questioned several importers, including Artículos Deportivos Decathlon, as well as the Chinese exporters Hebei Bicystar and Shenghong.
The provisional duty applies for six months from the entry into force of the resolution, the day after its publication in the Official Gazette.
