The solar industry in the United States held their breath for a much-delayed review of the Commerce Department over alleged unfair trade practices of the Chinese solar panel makers. Some solar manufacturers, especially SolarWorld, complain manufacturers an American arm of a German, that the Chinese government is deeply subsidized domestic solar panel makers to allow them to underbid other producers.
Most of the solar industry, especially solar and financiers who directly benefit Panel pricers opinion, and argue that putting up trade barriers to imports from China would be the solar industry to his damage as a whole, costs jobs and dynamics in a time when solar energy rises rapidly throughout the world. mixed.
Commerce concluded that the Chinese government had illegal export subsidies made available and decided to propose to reduce customs duties on imported solar panels from China focus. Here is a representative of the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM), which included pro-tariff trade barriers, the SolarWorld group:
Today's announcement confirms what U.S. manufacturers have long known: Chinese manufacturers have received unfair and illegal subsidies. We are pleased with the Commerce Department are working hard to make these grants to help light, and we look forward to any unfair trade practices in the solar industry in China.
And here is Jigar Shah, president of the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE), unlike the tariffs:
Today's preliminary determination by the Department of Commerce imposing low tariffs on imported solar cells / modules in China, of course, have a limited negative impact on the U.S. solar industry and its 100,000 employees. It also shows that the Commerce Department was not involved in the massive subsidies the Chinese government, such as SolarWorld and CASM claim.
The United States and other countries have restrictions on Chinese exports of valuable rare earths, which are a key for both complained clean and high tech.
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Most of the solar industry hopes that trade barriers are kept low so that the plates to move easily around the world and to reduce the prices are. "The placement of restrictions on trade will not help us," Shawn Qu, CEO of Canadian Solar major manufacturers told me on Monday.
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