U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has accepted the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy by the German solar manufacturer SolarWorld AG American company's "loophole" investigation, the complaint made by the company mainly involves the use of a third country / region photovoltaic cell production products, especially Use the Taiwan region of China solar cell components.
According to the U.S. International Trade Commission said the anti-dumping preliminary ruling is expected to be released in February 14, 2014. If the conclusion is affirmative, the U.S. Department of Commerce will be announced in March 2014 countervailing duty (CVD), and in June 2014 to make a preliminary anti-dumping.
SolarWorld's petition pointed out that Chinese component manufacturers common practice used by Taiwan OEM battery in its photovoltaic components, then these PV modules longer be imported into the United States, thus avoiding "double reverse" punitive tariffs.
Announced in October 2012 the original anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations conclusion, involving heavy taxes on imports from China of PV modules, in particular pointed out the use of solar cells from mainland China PV modules
Currently, more comprehensive survey being carried out will likely bring a broad and significant impact on the global PV industry.
In addition to the main areas in Taiwan solar cell suppliers, downstream PV companies such as American SolarCity, SunEdison domestic import channels are key components, these components of solar cells using a third country / region involved in the production of the roof in the United States, commercial and utility-scale PV projects.
American Parity Solar Alliance (Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, referred to as CASE), claiming that it will represent the majority of the U.S. solar industry opposed by SolarWorld in the past and currently proposed dual appeal, and that the behavior of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is contrary to the United States PV industry needs.
"SolarWorld is trying to single-handedly destroyed the U.S. solar jobs, primarily affecting the solar installation, rather than solar cells or panels manufacturing," CASE Chairman, JIGAR Shah said. "As a fair price competition worldwide, we have significantly reduced the country's residential and commercial rooftop solar installation price, which means that so far we have created more than 110,009 thousand jobs."
"The government should not reward or protect with a booming global solar industry loner German company," Shah added. "It should not be to punish those American companies to create jobs for the same reasonable one industry. Prosecution of this case does not solve the trade to promote U.S. manufacturing problem, it will only disrupt the development of the industry."
Before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) decided to investigate this "loophole", the Chinese government made to the United States to impose tariffs polysilicon manufacturers, including those owned factories in the United States a key global supplier.