All Entries Tagged With: "Trade"
GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case
Amazon.com Widgets Our inaugural podcast covers a piece of highly charged news: the preliminary verdict from the Department of Commerce on the Anti-Dumping (AD) complaint which resulted in a 31 percent levy for most of the major Chinese panel manufacturers. We covered the verdict yesterday, as well as feedback from both sides of the dispute. [...]
GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case
Our inaugural podcast covers a piece of highly charged news: the preliminary verdict from the Department of Commerce on the Anti-Dumping (AD) complaint which resulted in a 31 percent levy for most of the major Chinese panel manufacturers. We covered the verdict yesterday, as well as feedback from both sides of the dispute. Here's the [...]
GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case
Our inaugural podcast covers a piece of highly charged news: the preliminary verdict from the Department of Commerce on the Anti-Dumping (AD) complaint which resulted in a 31 percent levy for most of the major Chinese panel manufacturers. We covered the verdict yesterday, as well as feedback from both sides of the dispute. Here's the [...]
GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case
Our inaugural podcast covers a piece of highly charged news: the preliminary verdict from the Department of Commerce on the Anti-Dumping (AD) complaint which resulted in a 31 percent levy for most of the major Chinese panel manufacturers. We covered the verdict yesterday, as well as feedback from both sides of the dispute. Here's the [...]
Text of Commerce Dept. Ruling on China Solar Trade Tariffs
Here's a reprint of the fact sheet just issued by the Department of Commerce on the preliminary decision on the anti-dumping complaint from SolarWorld. (Click on the images to enlarge.) Go Green
Report: Solar Trade Barriers Threaten Over 60,000 American Jobs
The Brattle Group has issued an economic analysis on the impact of a 100 percent tariff on PV cells imported from China. Keep in mind that the study was commissioned by CASE, the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy — the group that opposes the tariffs sought by SolarWorld and its anti-dumping claims with the Department [...]
Clarification: China-US Solar Trade Claim
According to a bulletin from CASM, The Department of Commerce "will begin collecting duties back 90 days on Chinese imports" if it finds duties are warranted. The CASM statement said that CASM lauded "the U.S. Department of Commerce for taking expedited action against a massive, evasive surge of Chinese solar cell and panel imports ahead [...]
Guest Post: Price Is Not the Only Issue in a Solar Trade Discussion
Background: On December 20, 2011, Jigar Shah, President, Coalition of Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and founder of SunEdison, publicly asked Gordon Brinser, President of SolarWorld Industries Americas and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) to withdraw its petition to the U.S. ITC/DOC against Chinese solar imports for dumping solar panels in the U.S. below [...]
Impressions of the Wind Tower Trade War
On the heels of accusations that the Chinese government is subsidizing its solar panel manufacturers so they can sell at below-market prices in the U.S., the U.S.-based Wind Tower Trade Coalition (WTTC) petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate Chinese and Vietnamese tower makers for similar practices. [...]
CEO of an American PV Installer Weighs In on the SolarWorld-China Trade Claim
As an experienced U.S. small business in the renewable energy technologies space, we have mixed feelings about the SolarWorld Americas anti-dumping case against Chinese imports of crystalline silicon solar cells. It's curious that the CEO of SolarWorld, Gordon Brinser, has spent money sending us information regarding the company's complaints against anti-dumping. That’s right, folks: nothing [...]
