The US government has finished reviewing anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the former rates to an average of 1.82% and the latter to an average of 15.68%, with the average of 19.50% much lower than original 30%, according to PV industry sources in Taiwan.
The large reduction in anti-dumping tariff rates was because the US government found that China-based makers did not significantly dump PV modules in the US market during May 25, 2012 to November 30, 2013, the sources said.
The reduced rates are much lower than the ones imposed on December 2014 when the US government, concluded its second antitrust investigation and imnposed anti-dumping tariff rates of 76.50-90.85% and anti-subsidization tariff rates of 27.64-49.79% on leading China-based PV module makers.
These China-based makers, however, will be allowed to choose between the reduced 2012 rates and the 2014 rates, the sources said, expecting them to naturally choose the former.
The review is expected to frustrate SolarWorld, the main complainant leading to both the 2012 and 2014 investigations, the sources said.
