US ITC Affirms Material Injury in Solar Tariff Probe

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has made final affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD) investigation into solar suppliers in Indonesia, Laos and India, the agency announced in a bulletin Wednesday.

The probe kicked off last summer. The Department of Commerce (DOC) analysed whether suppliers in the three countries sold solar cells (whether or not assembled into modules) into the U.S. below fair market value, or were provided with countervailable subsidies. The ITC was tasked with determining whether the alleged behavior materially injured, or threatened to materially injure, domestic suppliers.

The DOC released its own affirmative determinations on Sept. 11.

With affirmative determinations from the ITC, the DOC will issue final AD and CVD orders sometime in November to finalize and implement tariffs on solar cells and modules from Indonesia, Laos and India.

According to the DOC’s final determinations, manufacturers and exporters in India face a dumping margin of 123.04% for all producers, and a CVD rate of 126.09%. Manufacturers in Indonesia face a dumping margin of 94.36%, and CVD rates between 73.2% and 173.7%. Manufacturers in Laos face a dumping margin of 65.43%, and CVD rates between 82.03% and 153.67%.

Reporting by Colt Shaw, cshaw@opisnet.com; Editing by Jordan Godwin, jgodwin@opisnet.com