The American department today released its final tariff amounts on solar cells (whether or not assembled in modules) from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The rates would come into effect if the American International Trade Commission makes a final decision (around 20 May) that domestic panel production -industry was damaged by dumped and subsidized imports from the Southeast Asian countries. The ITC has already decided in the affirmative in this anti -dumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) case, so it is likely that the final decision will follow.
The final tariff amounts are comparable to/slightly higher than the provisional amounts, except for the CVD percentage for Cambodia that rose from 729% to 3,400%.
The Final rate amounts are below. Some percentages were initially mentioned incorrectly on the trade website and Solar Power World will update the definitive tariff totals if things change.
Cambodia
| Commend | Final advertisements | END CVD percentage | Total rate amount |
| Solar energy new energy | 117.18% | 534.67% | 651.85% |
| Hungen Solar, Jinktek Fotovoltaic, Isc Cambodia, Solar Long PV Tech |
117.18% | 3,403.96% | 3,521.14% |
| All others | 117.18% | 534.67% | 651.85% |
Malaysia
| Commend | Final advertisements | END CVD percentage | Total rate amount |
| Hanwha Q cells | 0% | 14.64% | 14.64% |
| Jinkosolar | 1.92% | 38.38% | 40.30% |
| Baojia New Energy | 81.24% | 168.80% | 250.04% |
| CRC, Lynter, Mega PP | 81.24% | 32.49% | 113.73% |
| Pax Union, Sunmax Energy | 1.92% | 168.80% | 170.72% |
| All others | 1.92% | 32.49% | 34.41% |
Thailand
| Commend | Final advertisements | END CVD percentage | Total rate amount |
| Trina Solar | 111.45% | 263.74% | 375.19% |
| Sunshine Electrical, Taihua New Energy | 172.68% | 799.55% | 972.23% |
| All others | 111.45% | 263.74% | 375.19% |
Vietnam
| Commend | Final advertisements | END CVD percentage | Total rate amount |
| JA SOLAR | 52.54% | 68.15% | 120.69% |
| Jinkosolar | 120.38% | 124.57% | 244.95% |
| Blue Moon Vina | 77.12% | 124.57% | 201.69% |
| Boviet Solar | 77.12% | 230.66% | 307.78% |
| Elite Solar, Letsolar, Pit Solar Vina, Nexuns, Trina Solar, Vietergy, Vietnam Sunergy (Vsun) |
77.12% | 124.57% | 201.69% |
| Gep New energy, HT Solar, New Energy Vina, Vietnam Green Energy |
271.28% | 542.64% | 813.92% |
| All others | 271.28% | 124.57% | 395.85% |
The trade has determined the tariff amounts in the past year. A group of American manufacturers, who called itself the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, submitted for the first time the AD/CVD Petition in April 2024 and claimed that in the first place Chinese sun companies worked in Southeast Asia to prevent existing rates for Chinese goods. The group said that the Chinese companies were subsidized by the governments of the four countries (and probably the Chinese government) to work in Southeast -Asia and then dumped products on the American market at prizes in which domestic manufacturers could not compete.
For the time being, the ITC decided that the Southeast -Asian solar importation caused the domestic industry and the trade revealed its provisional CVD amounts in September and the provisional AD amounts in November. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has collected deposits on the basis of those provisional amounts and will switch to the final tariff amounts that once ordered through the trade.
Notes of the last hearing of the ITC
The ITC held a nine-hour public hearing last week to gain insight into the possible damage experienced by the domestic industry in this AD/CVD case. The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, on behalf of the Interior Industry, was represented by Wiley Rein LLP law firm; Manufacturers of solar cells Talon PV and Suniva; And panel manufacturers Mission Solar and Qcells. Witnesses on the other hand were trade associations American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA); Manufacturers byd, Canadian solar energy, runergy and Trina Solar; And investment research group Clean Energy Associates.
The petitioners largely spoke about how difficult it is still to produce in the United States, even with the incentives offered in the Inflation reduction Act. Representatives of Qcells stated that the industry feels again as if 2011 when the dumped product from China really started to influence American industry. Southeast Asian import is sold in the prices that is cheaper than being able to produce domestic manufacturers, even with the Incentives per Watt of the IRA. Domestic panel assemblers also do not produce near their capacity, they said, which proves that they are damaged by the Southeast Asian import.
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The respondents did not deny that the in Southeast Asian imports will be cheaper. They usually asked that silicon cells and final panels are not considered ‘as product’ and are viewed separately instead. It would be an important distinction for the witnessing respondents (Canadian Solar, Runergy, Trina Solar), who have American module assembly plants and want to import their own solar cells without rates in Southeast -Asia. In the past 15 years, the ITC has already dealt with the question ‘Like Product’ in solar people four times, in the end decisive that cells and panels would be considered the same. Changing those prospects would now be a legal issue. Moreover, today’s decision on tariff amounts such as cells and panels will be considered like like products, and the rates at both products will be imposed with the same rates. If the ITC decides next month to handle the two products separately, the trade would calculate new rates at a later date.
The ITC is expected to reveal its final provision around 20 May.
