Anti Dumping Chinese Solar Panels

The european commission decided on friday 31 august to eliminate anti dumping tariffs on chinese solar panels saying the decision will help the eu achieve its renewable energy goals.

Anti dumping chinese solar panels.

Department of commerce issued anti dumping duties of 31 14 percent on imports of solar cells and panels from suntech 31 22 percent from trina solar 31 18 percent from other companies that had requested but not received individual duty determinations and 249 96 percent from all other chinese producers including those controlled by. Antidumping and countervailing duties are required on imports of solar cells and panels from china including solar panels produced in a third country from chinese solar cells. Solar i prc investigations resulted in ad cvd orders covering solar cells from china including chinese cells assembled into modules laminates and panels outside of china. The preliminary tariffs were given after solarworld a german solar manufacturer with operations in the usa claimed chinese manufacturers were avoiding paying duties by producing solar cells in taiwan.

Us imposes new anti dumping duties on chinese taiwanese solar panels. The tariffs on chinese made solar panels range from 100 to 110. Anti dumping duties are levied on solar panels imported from china malaysia and the united states. Market said seia president and ceo abigail ross hopper in an email message on june 15 when the additional tariffs were first proposed.

From china now due to the antidumping countervailing and safeguard duties imposed on chinese products it is difficult to assess the effect additional duties would have on the u s. Instead the european union and china agreed to set a minimum price level for solar panels. Given the relatively small portion of cells and panels imported to the u s. The us department of commerce has imposed new tariff duties of up to 165 04 on crystalline silicon photovoltaic pv solar imports from china and taiwan after it found panels were being sold too cheaply to the us market.

Therefore european importers need not to worry about anti dumping duties on imported solar panels at least not yet. In the solar case china s new surrogate was thailand. In the end anti dumping duties were not levied on chinese made solar panels. The use of a surrogate country obviously introduces artificial constructs into the calculation of ad margins.

The eu first imposed anti dumping and anti subsidy measures for chinese solar panels wafers and cells in 2013 and extended them by 18 months in march last year signaling that they should then end.