India Recommends Solar Levy For Panels from U.S., China, Taiwan

摘要

India's Commerce Ministry proposed antidumping levies for photovoltaic cells imported from the U.S., China, Taiwan and Malaysia following an 18-month probe. The duties required to offset dumping and "material injury" to local manufacturers are $0.64 to $0.81 a watt for Chinese imports, a notice from the ministry showed. They would add $0.11 to $0.48 a watt for U.S. cells, $0.62 for Malaysian units and $0.59 for those from Taiwan. As Asia's third-biggest solar market, India is joining a protectionist trend that developers say threatens the viability of projects as they compete against conventional power. The U.S. applied tariffs as high as 250 percent on Chinese products in 2012, and the European Union followed with its own measures a year later. Australia started its own probe May 14 into the sale of products below costs, a practice commonly known as dumping.