EU increases anti-dumping rates on Chinese solar glass

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The EU has increased anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar glass to a maximum of 75.4%. The highest original anti-dumping tariff was 36.1%.

The review was requested by EU ProSun Glass in November 2014 with the EU reopening its investigation in December that year. The group is led by manufacturer Interfloat.

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In an official release, the European Commission said it had found that export prices among the companies it investigated had continued to fall, even after the first set of tariffs had been applied.

The highest anti-dumping rate of 75.4% was applied to Xinyi PV Products. Most companies have been given rates of around 60%.

Countervailing duties remain unchanged from the original case.

SolarWorld, the complainant in the EU-China cell and module trade cases, publicly opposed the reopening of the solar glass case.

“When the first [glass] case started there was a legitimate case to be answered but since then 50% of Europe’s glass supply has disappeared,” Milan Nitzschke, president of EU ProSun told PV Tech earlier this year. “Now there is mainly one company driving the case and no European supply base for all of the European demand. That makes the new case more than absurd.”

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