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May 18, 2012

Chinese Government Faces Trouble with U.S. Ruling on Solar Power Equipment Dumping

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez
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Friday was a day of trade tension between both the United States and China, as the government of the People's Republic of China rejected a ruling by the United States regarding anti-dumping policies on solar power equipment. Chinese solar energy manufacturers warned that there might be higher tariffs in response to this measure, making the migration towards cleaner forms of energy more expensive.


This conflict made Chinese and U.S. trade tensions reach a whole new level. Both governments have previously shown their enthusiasm to work together to develop a global solution to the current energy crisis. However, both nations also point the finger at each other when it comes to violations of free trade agreements. Each one has accused the other of subsidizing its manufacturers with incentives to speed up the process. A spokesman for the Commerce Ministry of China, Shen Danyang, said, "The U.S. ruling is unfair, and the Chinese side expresses its extreme dissatisfaction."

Shen said that the ruling by the United States may damage the current clean energy cooperation agreement established between the two countries, but he didn't give any details about what China will do about these measures. American companies have spoken against the trade ruling, saying that China may see this as an opportunity to further damage the operations of U.S.-based solar energy manufacturers and suppliers.

The U.S. side of the story is that China sold their photovoltaic cells and mounting panels below a "fair price" and this incurred damages against American manufacturers. If the U.S. upholds its current ruling, Chinese solar panels might suffer a burden of tariffs within the range of 31 percent.

Three of China's major producers - Suntech Power Holdings (News - Alert) Co., Trina Solar Ltd., and Yingli Green Energy Holdings Ltd. - claim that they are not selling their products at an unfairly low price.

Trina's CCO, Mark Kingsley, says, "We will challenge with data of all of those assumptions." He claims that China doesn't subsidize company resources as much as other countries do. He claims that Trina has already found a supplier that could help the company stay afloat with a similar price offering even with the tariffs.




Edited by Brooke Neuman

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