U.S. ready to levy steep duties on solar products from China

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) decided Wednesday that the U.S. solar industry was materially injured by Chinese imports, thus allowing Washington to impose punitive duties on Chinese solar products.

The ruling, backed by all six commissioners of the federal bipartisan trade panel, cleared the way for the U.S. Commerce Department to issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China.

The Commerce Department determined last month that Chinese producers and exporters sold these products in the U.S. market at dumping margins ranging from 18.32 percent to 249.96 percent, and they received countervailable subsidies of 14.78 percent to 15.97 percent.

The punitive tariff orders would apply to goods that entered the U.S. market after March 20 and May 17 when the Commerce Department made affirmative preliminary determinations on countervailing and antidumping investigations respectively.

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