Yet this summer, the Singapore-based module maker began picking up significant sales in America. It was no coincidence that this momentum occurred around the time the US announced its first of a new round of preliminary countervailing duties on Chinese and Taiwanese PV kit.

“I don’t want to deny that the [trade war] has had an impact,” Arndt Lutz, the company’s senior vice-president for US sales and marketing, tells Recharge.

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