PV groups trade insults over Chinese support measures

SolarWorld and its US allies see a significant expansion of what they call illegal support for PV exporters in China’s latest five-year plan.

But Chinese insiders say the plan should be seen as little more than a positive signal from Beijing, and accuse the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) of attacking China to cover its members’ own failures.

The rhetoric on both sides is heating up ahead of next week’s expected decision by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) on anti-dumping tariffs. In March, the department announced preliminary countervailing duties of 2.9-4.73% on Chinese crystalline-silicon PV cell and module imports, to counteract ten government subsidies.

“Our coalition of US producers contested the illegal…

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