EU maintains import duties on Chinese solar glass

The European Commission has decided to keep its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy countervailing duties on solar glass imports from China, according to official documents released last week.

The EU first introduced the measures in May 2014 for five years. In May 2019 it launched separate expiry reviews in response to calls from EU ProSun Glass. The review investigation period covered the whole of 2018.

A key conclusion in the expiry review related to the anti-dumping duties is that “there is a strong likelihood that the expiry of the anti-dumping measures would result in an increase in dumped volumes”. The other review showed that “the exporting producers continued receiving preferential lending as a countervailable subsidy”.

Henan Yuhua New Material Co Ltd and Zhejiang Hehe Photovoltaic Glass Technology Co Ltd face the lowest anti-subsidy tariff rates of 17.5% and 35.3%, respectively. For all other companies the rates are between 55.9% and 75.4%.

The counter-subsidy duties are as low as 3.2% for Xinyi PV Products (Anhui) Holdings Ltd, while the range for other producers in China is 12.4% to 17.1%.

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