China's Titan eyes new wind tower markets as US tariffs loom

Chinese wind tower maker Titan Wind is seeking to counter the negative impact of US dumping duties by expanding in other markets.

The company, one of China’s biggest tower manufacturers, looks set to incur steep tariffs on exports to the US after the Department of Commerce (DOC) issued its final determination in an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese and Vietnamese tower imports during 2011.

The DOC recommended anti-dumping duties of 44.9% on Suzhou-based Titan Wind, raising the rate from the 20.85% cited in a preliminary ruling in July.

“The duties are unreasonable and unfair to us," Zheng Kangsheng, Titan board secretary told state-owned Chinese newspaper Global Times. "We have never dumped our…

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