Anti Dumping Solar Panels

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Anti dumping solar panels.

Adobe stock by martin banks. If at this point of time the anti dumping duties are imposed on such imports the ongoing projects in the country will face huge cost over runs threatening the very viability of the ongoing projects. Bonds submitted will need to be honored by payment of safeguard duty. Anti dumping duty solar panels started in december 2013.

People s republic of china current last measures. Not available countries investigated. Since then importers of china solar goods are required to pay anti dumping duty to customs if the price is above the mip. The merchandise covered by the solar cells order is crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules laminates and panels consisting of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells whether or not partially or fully assembled into other products including but not limited to modules laminates panels and building integrated materials.

Solar industry has already enforced 30 tariffs on imported solar panels since february. All these projects were won through the most aggressive biddings. China s tremendous increase in solar photovoltaic production driven in part by an estimated 42 billion in subsidized government loans between 2010 and 2012 has been a key factor in the rapid decline in solar panel prices worldwide. Any chinese imported cells or panels would now have 55 tariffs in addition to antidumping countervailing duties in place for the last few years.

While these price reductions have been instrumental in the recent boom in u s. The proof of that is solar power per unit crashed to 2 36 to 2 40 per unit. 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. Us imposes new anti dumping duties on chinese taiwanese solar panels 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.

Solar manufacturers as well as. In 2016 the european union decided to extend the anti dumping duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules and components from china to similar imports from malaysia and taiwan.