EU increases anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar glass imports

The duties were raised to between 17.5% and 75.4%, from the previous levels of 0.4-36.1%, imposed in 2014.

Manufacturing lobby group EU ProSun Glass, which represents nearly half of EU solar glass production, had asked the EC to reopen the investigation in November, claiming that solar glass was still being sold “unfairly” cheap despite the original tariffs.

According to EU ProSun Glass, Chinese producers have excess production capacity that is more than eight times total EU consumption.

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