The
US
Department
of
Commerce
(DOC),
responding
to
last
autumn's
petitions
by
SolarWorld
and
other
members
of
the
Coalition
for
American
Solar
Manufacturing
(CASM),
announced
preliminary
duties
of
2.9%
to
4.73%
on
crystalline
silicon
PV
cells
to
counter
Chinese
subsidies
to
its
PV
manufacturers.
Preliminary
antidumping
duties
of
31%
for
most
Chinese
importers
were
announced
25
May.
April
solar
imports
from
China
were
worth
$70.7m,
a
64%
drop
from
the
year-earlier
period,
according
to
the
CASM,
citing
subscription-only
DOC
trade
statistics
gathered
by
Wiley
Rein,
the
law
firm…
