The United States International Commerce Commission has taken a positive determination in its anti-dumping and compensatory investigation (AD / CVD) concerning solar cells and signs of Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
The affirmative final decision of ITC that American industry was injured by imports from Southeast Asia means that customs and border protection (CBP) can start to perceive tasks on products in less than a month. The Commerce Department published its latest price calculations last month. Import prices from Cambodia vary from 650% to 3,500%; Malaysian prices vary from 14% to 250%; Thai prices vary from 375% to 972%; And Vietnamese prices vary from 120% to 813%. Price amounts determined by the company may be found here.
This survey began after a petition for a group of American manufacturers, known as the American alliance for Solar solar manufacturing committee, was deposited in April 2024. The group said that Chinese solar companies worked mainly in Southeast Asia to avoid paying existing prices on Chinese products. The group also said that Chinese companies had been subsidized by the governments of the four countries to work in Southeast Asia, then poured products on the American market at which national manufacturers could not compete.
ITC has agreed with petitioners, and solar imports from Southeast Asia will come with new prices in addition to all prices across the country already initiated by the Trump administration.
“Today’s vote leaves no doubt: these companies whose head office violates commercial laws by overwhelming the American market with unjustly cheap, thrown and subsidized solar panels – and they continue to do so from third -party markets in the commercial and main lawyer of the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Committee.
Advocacy Group Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), which testified to the ITC against the petitioners, said that today’s affirmative decision was “concerning American solar manufacturers and the wider American solar industry”.
“The final determination of ITC affirmative injuries adds an additional layer of prices that will increase costs for solar products that US companies need to create projects and develop national manufacturing,” said the president and chief executive officer of the SEIA, Abigail Ross Hopper. “Today, the manufacture of American solar cells has increased for the first time in years, but it is still not on the scale necessary to meet demand. This determination harvested in particular the producers of solar modules which depend on access to imported solar cells while we increase the manufacturing capacity of interior cells. The imposing additional prices for cellular imports at this stage risks stabser progress and subscribe to the same industry, they meant to support. ”
Imports from the four countries had decreased considerably in anticipation of the high price amounts.
Mike Carr, Executive Director of the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America (SEMA) coalition, published the following declaration:
“With this decision, the International Non-Sample International Commerce Commission has confirmed for the third time that companies belonging to Chinese continue to deceive our commercial laws and subcontracting American solar manufacturers. This decision is a step forward to approach the continuous efforts of China to undermine the writing of the manufacture of the United States. The national factories will end even before they are allowed to open completely.
The Commerce Department will issue its pricing orders on June 9, then CBP will begin to pay tasks on June 16.
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