In
the
job
for
only
two
months,
Altmaier
finds
himself
straddling
a
precarious
fault
line
between
module
producers
like
SolarWorld
–
which
are
pushing
for
trade
sanctions
against
their
Chinese
rivals
–
and
other
players
at
the
upstream
and
downstream
ends
of
the
industry,
which
benefit
from
cheap
imports
from
China.
The
tension
is
heightened
by
the
preliminary
anti-dumping
tariffs
put
in
place
in
the
US
at
the
behest
of
SolarWorld,
and
today’s
revelation
that
China
has
launched
its
own
investigation
into
the
trade
practices
of
polysilicon
producers…
