US trade officials finalised rough tax levels on most thermal cells from Southeast Asia, a key move toward wrapping up a year-old business situation in which American manufacturers accused Taiwanese companies of flooding the market with badly cheap goods.
The case was brought last year by Korea’s Hanwha Qcells, Arizona-based First Solar Inc and many smaller suppliers seeking to defend billions of dollars in expenditures in US renewable production.
The applicant class, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, accused large Chinese solar panel manufacturers with companies in Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam of shipping panels priced below their cost of production and of receiving cruel subsidies that make American goods weak.
The tariffs unveiled on Monday ( Apr 21 ) vary widely depending on the company and country, but were broadly higher than the preliminary duties announced late last year.
Combined dumping and countervailing tasks on Jinko Solar goods from Malaysia were among the lowest at 41. 56 per share. Rival Trina Solar’s products from its activities in Thailand experience tariffs of 375. 19 per share.
Neither Redefinition nor Trina were instantly available for comment.
Products from Cambodia had encounter duties of more than 3,500 per share because its makers elected not to engage with the US sensor.
” These are very strong effects,” Tim Brightbill, an attorney for the US producing party, said on a visit with investigators.
” We are convinced that they will handle the unfair business practices of the Chinese-owned businesses in these four nations, which have been injuring the US solar manufacturing business for far too much. “