EU Expands Duty Reliefs for China Exports under Solar Antidumping

 
Following EU antidumping probe on China photovoltaic products, China authority criticizes the EU subsidy for grid electricity price, and it has started an antidumping probe into polysilicon from the EU.

Additionally, the EU's latest Generalized Scheme of Preferences is further complicating the bilateral relations.

Through the Scheme of Preferences, the EU gives duty reliefs to foreign exports to its member countries. The revised scheme, to take effect on January 1, 2014, still includes China into EU's "low-middle revenue" partners to benefit from its duty reliefs for specific products.

Under the EU preferential tariffs, China exports are expanded to those used for solar products, such as alkali and alkaline-earth metals (except sodium and cadmium), alumina (except artificial corundum), ammonium sulfate, sodium nitrate, unprocessed lead, and unprocessed cadmium powder.

On November 5, China filed a complaint to the WTO charging the EU with violating rules governing subsidies to its solar components industry.