Oregon SolarWorld: The company claims that Chinese PV manufacturers are taking advantage of a loophole to circumvent U.S. import tariffs.
International manufacturer SolarWorld recently proposed a new complaint to terminate PV manufacturers in mainland China and Taiwan in the United States of its alleged anti-competitive activities.
The company was previously the main instigators of the United States and the European Union oppose China's trade action, which means that its latest complaint seeks to remedy in 2012 the U.S. government issued a loophole for China solar import trade tariffs.
In a statement on 31 December 2013 in, SolarWorld said the obvious flaws make China the third country producers through the use of a battery manufacturing assembly components, to avoid about 31% of U.S. tariffs.
The company said its anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases submitted to the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce, outlining circumvent makes Chinese manufacturers continue to be sold at prices below the cost of production, and "market share" approach.
Oregon, SolarWorld Industries America president Mukesh • Dulaney (MukeshDulani) said: "The fact that we are submitting to the completion of our trade regulators work to prevent further damage to another Chinese manufacturing and other employment base."
"China clearly aware of the critical importance of solar energy technology manufacturing future economic competitiveness, but we also realized this, so once again we simply ask our trade regulators to investigate the facts and to ensure the freedom to enable a sound legal trade, healthy competition and reduce long-term pricing. If you can restore a level playing field, then the U.S. industry will return to growth. "
SolarWorld said it is supporting the U.S. solar manufacturing Federation (Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing) under operation, the Federation has two hundred forty-one member institutions.
But America's largest solar energy Solar Energy Industries Association trade body said its latest move against the SolarWorld against China.
SEIA President and CEO Rhone • Royce Chi (Rhone Resch), said: "More action is the wrong way is a kind of poor trade litigation means alone it can not be resolved between the U.S. and Chinese solar industry complex. The competition is time to terminate this conflict, negotiations must play a role. "
Royce Chi SEIA has stressed the approach advocated by the agency pointed out that the solution put forward last year
Chi-Royce, said: "SEIA proposal provides a mutually satisfactory solution, which recognize the interests of all stakeholders of solar energy, not just a part of the industry."
"However, to our knowledge, none of the U.S. and Chinese governments adopt SEIA is proposed as a basis for negotiations, nor does it make any meaningful proposals to address the wider conflict. Was time to have a conflict between the two governments in the harvest, an end to this conflict, we urge the United States and China immediately put to serious, result-oriented negotiations. "