See 83 federal register 3541 january 25 2018.
Cvd on solar panels.
On january 23 2018 the president issued presidential proclamation 9693 under section 201 of the trade act of 1974 providing for a tariff rate quota trq for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cspv cells.
This was introduced in the 2018 union budget and was set at 10 of all customs duties except safeguard duty countervailing duty cvd and anti dumping duty add.
And an additional duty for modules comprised of cspv cells effective february 7 2018.
The coalition for affordable solar energy case also criticised the us decision and said the duties would hinder the deployment of renewable energy by raising the prices of solar products.
On october 10 2012 the department of commerce commerce announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping ad and countervailing duty cvd investigations of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled into modules solar cells from the people s republic of china china.
On september 8 2016 the department received a request on behalf of q cells hong kong and q cells qidong for expedited ccrs to establish q cells hong kong as the successor in interest to solarone hong kong and to establish q cells qidong as the successor in interest to solarone qidong for purposes of the of the ad and countervailing duty cvd orders on solar cells from the prc and solar products from the prc.
In the cvd investigation commerce calculated a final subsidy rate of 49 79 percent for mandatory respondent changzhou trina solar energy co ltd which includes trina solar changzhou science technology co ltd.
Mandatory respondent wuxi suntech power co ltd.
For imposition of add and cvd investigation certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from the prc taiwan cvd pd 1 8 bar codes 3171278 01 08 alleges solar i prc orders failed to cover chinese solar modules assembled from non chinese solar cells allowing chinese solar producers to begin using cells fully or partially manufactured in taiwan in the modules they assembled for export to the united states and to export those modules duty free to the u s.
Cvd processes are widely used in solar cell manufacturing from the deposition of crystalline silicon in a c si solar cell to the deposition of a range of different materials in thin film solar cells tfscs.
Another change made in the latest union budget was the removal of the exemption on social welfare surcharge sws on solar cells and modules.
In 2013 the us imported crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar products worth 1 5 billion from china and 656 8 million from taiwan according to us data.
The department of commerce commerce is revoking in part the antidumping duty ad and countervailing duty cvd orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled into modules from the people s republic of china china orders with respect to certain off grid solar panels based on a lack of interest in the relief provided by the orders with respect to those products.
