Anti Dumping Laws For Solar Panels China

New requirements for all importers of solar panels.

Anti dumping laws for solar panels china. 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. See solar products order 80 fr 8592 february 18 2015 and certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from the people s republic of china. 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. Given the relatively small portion of cells and panels imported to the u s.

Market said seia president and ceo abigail ross hopper in an email message on june 15 when the additional tariffs were first proposed. Following is a current message from the cbp message system. However starting in june 2014 the anti dumping duties also cover such products. The tariffs vary between different manufacturers ranging from 18 56 to 35 21.

Posted by sanders brokerage services. The cbsa is responsible for the administration of the special import measures act sima which helps to protect canadian industry from injury caused by the dumping and subsidizing of imported goods. The orders did not cover solar modules laminates or panels assembled in china using solar cells produced outside of china. The department of commerce has again found in favor of the petitioner solarworld in that company s trade case against chinese solar module makers.

The cbsa provides help to canadian producers who face unfair foreign competition in the canadian marketplace. On one hand commerce determined in 2014 that china and taiwan s photovoltaic imports violated the antidumping duty law by selling solar products in the united states at prices far lower than market price. 79 fr 76970 01 december 23 2014 where the department indicated that it would instruct cbp to require a cash deposit equal to the weighted. Previously the anti dumping duty didn t apply to solar panels made with cells manufactured outside of china.

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. The united states has imposed anti dumping and countervailing duties on solar panels manufactured in china.