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As the news sinks in about the newly-elected US president Donald Trump, who shocked the world by narrowly beating Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, industry stakeholders are taking stock.

EU ProSun, the campaign group in favour of extending anti-dumping measures against Chinese solar manufacturers, has responded to recent lobbying efforts with a campaign of its own.

The solar centric political campaigning group EU ProSun, established by integrated PV module manufacturer, SolarWorld, has condemned China and Chinese module manufacturers for causing SolarWorld to make 500 ‘temporary’ workers at its manufacturing plants in Germany, redundant.

The removal of another five Chinese companies from the EU’s price undertaking is further demonstration of the mechanism’s failure, according to the CEO of trade group SolarPower Europe.

Groups representing a total of 1.3 million jobs in 20 different EU countries have called for the end of trade duties on Chinese solar products.

European solar manufacturers have joined a protest in Brussels calling for the European Union not to grant market economy status (MES) to China.

The European Commission has formally concluded its investigation into how the minimum import price (MIP) for Chinese PV manufacturers is set, with the Bloomberg index to continue to be used.

The European Commission has rejected a request by EU ProSun to replace the pricing benchmark used to determine the minimum import price applied to Chinese solar products sold in the EU.