Featured in Store for more – 05-2012

Sweeping innuendo, but limited tariffs

Sino-U.S. trade case: After months of soap-box oration from the Oval Office on down and a snarky rift in the American solar industry that nearly rose to soap-opera standards on March 20, the U.S. Commerce Department handed down its preliminary decision in the countervailing duty (CVD) case against Chinese manufacturers of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells.

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pv magazine

07 May 2012

In retrospect, some would argue that the ruling was hardly worth the fuss. Corroborating that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had unfairly subsidized its own industry, at least to some extent, the Commerce Department levied single-digit tariffs on imports from the PRC of solar cells and solar modules. Specifically, the United States would impose …

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