Tim Brightbill, a trade lawyer working for SolarWorld USA, claims that should the US government decide to appeal yesterday's ruling, the current 14%-15% tariff levels would remain in place until “at least” 2016.
If the US lost its appeal, the countervailing duties set in 2012 would drop "no more than about 1%".
Furthermore, Brightbill notes that the WTO ruling does not have any impact on the current trade cases underway within the US Commerce Department, which aim to close down a "loophole" whereby Chinese module makers employ Taiwanese cells to elude the 2012 tariffs.
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