The official said that in light of "this considerable opposition of a majority of countries it becomes clear that the EC now must arrange for a rapid start of the negotiation process”.

Germany’s economics minister Philipp Rösler told Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang in Berlin yesterday that Germany has handed the EC a negative statement regarding the preliminary anti-dumping tariffs that the EU appears ready to slap on Chinese PV kit from June 6 onwards.

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