Commerce Finds AD/CVD Circumvention by Southeast Asian Solar Cells, Panels
The Commerce Department is setting new antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam -- though collection is on hold per a presidential proclamation and subsequent Commerce regulation -- after finding imports from the four countries are circumventing AD/CVD orders on solar cells from China in the preliminary determination of an anti-circumvention inquiry.
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The determination applies countrywide to all solar cells and modules produced in the four Southeast Asian countries, with the exception of exports from a few companies Commerce found are not circumventing the duties: New East Solar in Cambodia, Hanwha Q Cells and Jinko Solar in Malaysia, and Boviet Solar Technology from Vietnam.
Commerce will allow importer/exporter certifications to exempt entries from AD/CVD, except from 22 Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese companies ruled ineligible for certification due to their lack of cooperation in the inquiry. One type of certification will exempt from the four countries cells that aren’t made from Chinese wafers, or modules that either aren’t made from Chinese wafers or don’t use certain other Chinese components.