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EU solar panel makers want extension of Chinese import restrictions
EUROPEAN solar panel makers have asked the EU authorities retain and extend restrictions on Chinese solar imports that could revive old disputes Brussels and Beijing.
In 2013, the European Commission relented and allowed Chinese solar panel makers to sell a limited number in the EU at a minimum price, following a complaint from the European group, EU ProSun.
Imports from Chinese producers not part of this undertaking are subject to duties of up to 64.9 per cent, reported Reuters. The duties and duty-free arrangement expire in mid-December.
EU ProSun, an association of EU producers, said it had filed an application to extend them.
If the commission starts so-called expiry review, anti-dumping duties would extend for at least a year while they are assessed. But that settlement warded off a mounting trade battle between Brussels and Beijing.
Beijing said the EU was unfairly targeting a sector whose exports to the EU rose to EUR21 billion (US$23.7 billion) in 2011.
The commission is already investigating a complaint that Chinese solar companies are trying to evade import tariffs by shipping their products via Taiwan and Malaysia.
The commission has already proposed denying six Chinese solar panel producers from the duty-free undertaking because of alleged violations of its conditions.
In 2013, the European Commission relented and allowed Chinese solar panel makers to sell a limited number in the EU at a minimum price, following a complaint from the European group, EU ProSun.
Imports from Chinese producers not part of this undertaking are subject to duties of up to 64.9 per cent, reported Reuters. The duties and duty-free arrangement expire in mid-December.
EU ProSun, an association of EU producers, said it had filed an application to extend them.
If the commission starts so-called expiry review, anti-dumping duties would extend for at least a year while they are assessed. But that settlement warded off a mounting trade battle between Brussels and Beijing.
Beijing said the EU was unfairly targeting a sector whose exports to the EU rose to EUR21 billion (US$23.7 billion) in 2011.
The commission is already investigating a complaint that Chinese solar companies are trying to evade import tariffs by shipping their products via Taiwan and Malaysia.
The commission has already proposed denying six Chinese solar panel producers from the duty-free undertaking because of alleged violations of its conditions.
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