Beijing on June 3, the U.S. Department of Commerce on Chinese exports to the U.S. photovoltaic products antidumping and countervailing duty investigations made preliminary countervailing.
June 3, Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce on Chinese exports to the U.S. photovoltaic products anti-dumping, anti-subsidy investigation to make preliminary countervailing. Department of Commerce trade remedy investigations bureau has issued a statement that this was the case of the United States in November 2012 against Chinese exports to the U.S. PV products have high anti-dumping, countervailing duty on Chinese PV products again launched dual investigations and trying to impose high taxes, the Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction.
The official pointed out that the United States earlier this year to ignore the facts and the legal basis for conflicting rules of origin on Chinese PV products in the same investigation started again and make preliminary ruling high taxes. U.S. restrictions on the practice of Chinese products, is the abuse of trade remedy measures to protect the color is very obvious, is bound to make the Sino-US trade disputes photovoltaic upgrade again.
The official said that the frequent trade remedy measures taken by the U.S. PV industry can not solve their own development problems, hope the U.S. cautiously handle the investigation, to terminate the investigation procedures as soon as possible to create a good environment for the promotion of competition in the global PV industry. China will pay close attention to the progress of the case, and the right to take measures to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests reserved.