In retaliation for Europe setting a punitive tariff (11.8%) on China-made solar panels, China announced on June 5 plans to start an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against Europe-made wine imports. According to Reuters, this is ...
Tags: Wine Industry, Solar Trade Dispute
Analysts see sanity returning to PV market 21 May 2013 Lux Research and Solarbuzz see industry 'returning to equilibrium' as uncompetitive suppliers disappear. Despite the looming possibility of a photovoltaics (PV) trade war between ...
The European Union (EU) plans to announce the details of its anti-subsidy tariff against China-based solar firms on June 6, 2013. The tariff is expected to be 30-67.9% with the average as high as 47.6%. The anti-dumping tariff rate will be ...
Tags: Solar Trade Tariffs, Lights
The trade war in the solar market does not seem to be stopping. Following the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariff levied on China-based firms from the US, the EU is likely to follow suit with a tariff rate above 30%. If this tariff comes ...
According to the announcement released by Chinese Ministry of Commerce today, China starts to launch an anti-dumping investigation into seamless alloy steel pipes imported from Europe, Japan & America. Chinese domestic industry launches ...
Taiwan-based solar firms have been seeing rising orders in February and March. Some firms believe the changes are due to the EU's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based firms which has been pushing customers to ...
Tags: solar firms, rising orders, February, March
Due to the expectation that Japan will lower its solar feed-in-tariff (FIT) in April and the US punitive tariffs' impacts on China-made solar products, some tier-one Taiwan-based solar cell makers have seen orders rising. The Japan solar ...
Tags: FIT, solar products, solar cell makers
To avoid possible tariffs imposed by China, Europe-based polysilicon firms have been reportedly seeking cooperation with Taiwan-based solar wafer makers. Solar firms noted that the trade war between Europe and China will cast a light on ...
Tags: polysilicon firms, solar wafer makers, solar supply chain
The European Commission recently verified that imported solar modules from China will need to be registered. Some solar firms expect the registration process to begin in March and suspect that the registration means there may be a ...
The effect of the US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-made solar cells has been questioned especially when China-based solar firms are now able to buy solar cells from non-China regions and continue to assemble the ...
Tags: Solar Cells, solar firms, investigation
Some China-based solar firms hope to terminate long-term polysilicon supply contracts with international firms. The latter noted that it is quite difficult to do so because when the firms signed the contracts, there were material shortages ...
Tags: solar firms, China, long-term polysilicon supply contracts
As the China government is likely to decide on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs against polysilicon imported from makers in the US, Europe and South Korea, some polysilicon makers have had company executives visit China to talk with ...
China's Golden Sun Demonstration projects achieved a total installation capacity of 4.54GW in 2012, up 548.57% from 2011, according to media reports from China. China's government has been aggressively promoting domestic demand as the ...
Tags: China Market, Golden Sun Projects, Installation Capacity, 2012
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 ...
Tags: China Makers, Solar Products, Europe
The China government is likely to levy punitive tariffs on polysilicon makers from Europe, the US and South Korea in the first quarter of 2013. Recently, domestic material makers have been aiming for a price increase. Market observers ...
Tags: China government, polysilicon makers, prices