Wyden Pushes Commerce to Level Duties in China, Taiwan Solar Investigation
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., went to bat for U.S. solar panel manufacturers in testimony before the International Trade Commission on Dec. 8, saying Chinese dumping is continuing to damage U.S. industry (here). The Commerce Department's final determination…
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is scheduled for around Dec. 15. U.S. industry is starting to bounce back, said Wyden, after Commerce preliminarily determined in late July Chinese and Taiwanese exporters dumped crystalline silicon photovoltaic products into the U.S. market (see 14073011). “A strong determination from the Commission, coupled with antidumping and countervailing duties covering the full scope of unfair trade, will ensure the growth and resurgence of the domestic industry,” he said in testimony. The Chinese government previously said it wanted to reach a suspension agreement, but attorneys in the case said such a pact would have to be finalized 30 days before the Dec. 15 deadline for the Commerce final determination (see 14082002). Many U.S. industry members said the 2012 determination left a loophole that allowed Chinese producers to export their products via Taiwan without paying the U.S. duties.