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- Eu Extends Solar Anti-dumping Investigation To Malaysia And Taiwan
Article originally publish on www.cleantechnica.com, in June 1st, 2015 Chinese solar modules manufacturers who have moved a part of their production facilities to neighbouring countries may face fresh anti-dumping investigations from the European Union.Following...
- Who Is Benefiting From Anti-dumping In Europe ?
Article published on http://news.pv-insider.com/photovoltaics/who-benefiting-anti-dumping-europeBy Jason Deign on May 14, 2013 We look at the European Union tariffs now imposed on imported Chinese panels and how some PV makers are...
- European Solar Module Prices Rise For The First Time In Four Years
Article published on www.worldofphotovoltaics.com on April 24th, 2013. Reflecting a major shift in the global solar market after four years of severe erosion, prices for photovoltaic (PV) modules in the key European market are rising due to...
- Solar Panel Duty On Chinese Imports 'could Cost Uk Billions'
Article published on www.guardian.co.uk, February, 19th 2013 The UK could lose billions of pounds and thousands of jobs in the solar industry if the EU imposes tariffs on cheap imported panels from China, a report has claimed.A report suggests...
- Solar Trade War: Trade Complaint Filed At The European Commission Over Solar Glass Imports
Article published on www.solarserver.com, on February 5th, 2013 A new coalition of glass manufacturers for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules has filed an anti-dumping complaint with the European Commission regarding imports of glass from China. EU...
Green Energy
EU to Register Chinese Solar Panels, Highlighting Tariff Threat
Article published on www.bloomberg.com on March, 5th 2013
By Jonathan Stearns
The European Union ordered its customs officials to register imports of Chinese solar panels, underscoring the threat of tariffs on the shipments in the biggest EU trade dispute of its kind.
The step, part of inquiries into whether Chinese producers of solar panels receive trade-distorting government aid and sell them in the 27-nation EU below cost, would allow the bloc to impose duties retroactively. Both probes stem from complaints by EU ProSun, an industry group led by Germany’s Solarworld AG.
The two cases cover 21 billion euros ($27 billion) of EU imports in 2011 of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules or panels and cells and wafers used in them. Levies against subsidies are called countervailing duties and those against below-cost -- or “dumped” -- imports are anti-dumping duties.
“Imports of the product concerned should be made subject to registration in order to ensure that, should the investigations result in findings leading to the imposition of anti-dumping and/or countervailing duties, those duties can, if the necessary conditions are fulfilled, be levied retroactively,” the European Commission, the EU’s trade authority in Brussels, said today in the Official Journal. Registration will start tomorrow and last nine months.
Last September, the EU opened an inquiry into whether Chinese makers of solar panels such as Suntech Power Holdings Co. dump them in Europe and harm European competitors including Solarworld. Two months later, the EU began a separate investigation into whether Chinese producers receive subsidies.
EU Timeline
EU governments must decide by early December whether to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Chinese solar panels for five years. The commission must decide by early June whether to apply provisional anti-dumping duties and by early August on possible preliminary countervailing levies.
EU ProSun hailed the commission decision on registration, saying it would slow imports from China because of the possibility that European importers would later be forced to pay punitive duties on the goods.
“This is a very important step,” Milan Nitzschke, president of EU ProSun, told reporters today in Brussels. “This has an immediate impact on imports. We expect the amount of imports to go down very rapidly and significantly.”
Chinese companies have gained more than 80 percent of the market in Europe for solar goods compared with almost zero in 2004, EU ProSun said on Sept. 6 when the commission opened the dumping case.
Europe accounts for around three-quarters of the global photovoltaic market. China produces about 65 percent of solar panels worldwide, the commission said six months ago when opening the dumping case. The EU is China’s main export market for the renewable-energy technology, accounting for roughly 80 percent of Chinese sales abroad, according to the commission.
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- Eu Extends Solar Anti-dumping Investigation To Malaysia And Taiwan
Article originally publish on www.cleantechnica.com, in June 1st, 2015 Chinese solar modules manufacturers who have moved a part of their production facilities to neighbouring countries may face fresh anti-dumping investigations from the European Union.Following...
- Who Is Benefiting From Anti-dumping In Europe ?
Article published on http://news.pv-insider.com/photovoltaics/who-benefiting-anti-dumping-europeBy Jason Deign on May 14, 2013 We look at the European Union tariffs now imposed on imported Chinese panels and how some PV makers are...
- European Solar Module Prices Rise For The First Time In Four Years
Article published on www.worldofphotovoltaics.com on April 24th, 2013. Reflecting a major shift in the global solar market after four years of severe erosion, prices for photovoltaic (PV) modules in the key European market are rising due to...
- Solar Panel Duty On Chinese Imports 'could Cost Uk Billions'
Article published on www.guardian.co.uk, February, 19th 2013 The UK could lose billions of pounds and thousands of jobs in the solar industry if the EU imposes tariffs on cheap imported panels from China, a report has claimed.A report suggests...
- Solar Trade War: Trade Complaint Filed At The European Commission Over Solar Glass Imports
Article published on www.solarserver.com, on February 5th, 2013 A new coalition of glass manufacturers for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules has filed an anti-dumping complaint with the European Commission regarding imports of glass from China. EU...