Featured in Approaching the peak – 04-2013

Getting “even”

US-China solar trade case: A year ago, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary verdict in an Antidumping and Countervailing Duties trade case against China. Have the antidumping tariffs really leveled the playing field between the USA and China?

Last year, the United States reproached China for being “generous to a fault” to its domestic solar manufacturers, even as the rest of the industry suffered from declining subsidies, rising inventories and internecine cost competition. But can punitive tariffs really bring prices up to parity and alleviate the pain? On March 20, it was one …

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