The American Alliance for Photo voltaic Manufacturing Commerce Committee, represented by Wiley Rein, has filed essential circumstances allegations with the U.S. Division of Commerce concerning surges of photo voltaic imports from Vietnam and Thailand that it feels are injuring the U.S. photo voltaic trade.
The committee based mostly its allegations on what it discovered to be a 39% improve in imports from Vietnam and a 17% improve from Thailand between April and June this yr, in comparison with January via March.
It additional calls consideration to import ranges from the 2 nations between April, when Wiley filed antidumping and countervailing responsibility petitions on behalf of the committee, and June have been larger than the common recorded import ranges within the previous six months. As an example, month-to-month imports from Vietnam reached 2.5 GW in June, in comparison with 1.5 GW monthly within the previous six months.
“Once we submitted our petitions just a few months in the past, a number of China-based firms working in Thailand and Vietnam seem to have actively accelerated their U.S. photo voltaic exports, prone to evade impending duties. We have been due to this fact compelled to file these essential circumstances allegations in response to those new surges of imports,” stated Tim Brightbill, co-chair of Wiley’s Worldwide Commerce Apply and lead counsel to the petitioners.
“We can not enable these nations – and Chinese language-owned firms – to proceed harming the U.S. market unabated.”
In Could, the U.S. Division of Commerce opened its investigation into the arguments within the petitions filed in April by the Alliance. In June, the U.S. Worldwide Commerce Fee made an affirmative preliminary dedication that dumped and backed imports from Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand are presently injuring U.S. photo voltaic cell and module producers (or within the case of backed Cambodian imports, threaten such harm).
The committee claims that knowledge to date means that Vietnam and Thailand elevated their photo voltaic panel exports to the USA following the petitions filed by the Alliance to keep away from any duties that might comply with an affirmative dedication.
