As the DOC prepared to formally announce its decision, SolarWorld, as the petitioner, was informed early.

“We are pleased that the facts have begun to speak for themselves,” says Gordon Brinser, president of SolarWorld Industries America, the US arm of German PV maker SolarWorld.

The DOC has found that SolarWorld and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) “represent a clear majority of the domestic manufacturing industry and found adequate cause for concern over Chinese solar export practices to initiate an intensive, year-long investigation”, the company says in a statement.

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