EU Interim AD Duties on China Solar Glass at 17.1%-42.1%

Recently by xinhuanet news, the European Commission announced on November 27 that it has decided to impose provisional antidumping (AD) duties on China-made solar glass at the rates of 17.1%-42.1% from November 28.

Through its antidumping probe started from February 28, the EU authority affirms that Chinese solar-glass manufacturers sold their products at lower-than-cost prices on the EU market and therefore made material injury to local manufacturers.

Solar glass is a specialty glass used for solar panels and a key component for producing many other solar products. The EU previously announced that its solar glass market has the value of at least 200 million euros and that the anti-dumping probe was requested by relevant EU manufacturers’ association.

As per EU law, 28 member states will take a vote by May 27, 2014 on whether to levy five-year formal antidumping duties on the Chinese products.

Last September and November, the EU conducted antidumping and anti-subsidy probes into solar cell panels from China respectively, involving a total of 21.0 billion euros, as the largest double-anti case in EU history. This August, the Union stated that EU-China photovoltaic trade had reached a friendly solution in the form of Chinese price undertaking.