As the EU is likely to determine anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariff rates on solar products imported from China in May-July 2013, many first-tier China-based makers have been shipping large volumes of solar cells and modules at relatively low prices to the Europe market and therefore have seen utilization of production capacity rise to 60-70% on average, according to solar makers.
The makers noted that the EU may give a preliminary result for the investigation in May-July and if the retroactive period is 90 days, then shipments imported into the Europe market since February-March will be subject to the punitive tariffs. Therefore, China-based vertically integrated solar firms have been eager to dump products in Europe since January 2013.
