Commerce Set to Create New Exemption From AD/CVD on Solar Cells, Products
The Commerce Department intends to create a new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011) and Taiwan (A-583-853), it said in the preliminary results of three changed circumstances reviews released July 23.
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Commerce found U.S. producers of solar cells, including the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing, a domestic industry coalition, do not oppose Lutron Electronics' requests to create the exemptions.
Should Commerce finalize this determination in its final results, it will exempt from the scope of AD/CVD on Chinese solar cells and Chinese and Taiwanese solar products "off-grid CSPV panels in rigid form, with or without a glass cover, permanently attached to an aluminum extrusion that is an integral component of an automation device that controls natural light, whether or not assembled into a fully completed automation device that controls natural light, with the following characteristics:
- A total power output of 20 watts or less per panel;
- A maximum surface area of 1,000 cm2 per panel;
- Does not include a built-in inverter for powering third party devices."
Should it create the exemptions, Commerce would order liquidation, without regard to AD/CVD, and the refund of any cash deposits "deposited on all unliquidated entries of the merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after" Feb. 1, 2021.