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No winner will emerge from solar trade war

By Wang Aihua (Xinhua)

15:05, November 10, 2012

BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. and the European Union (EU) brought their bilateral trade ties with China to fresh low this week.

They both decided to impose penalty duties and launch a new probe into Chinese solar power products.

The U.S. International Trade Commission nodded to Washington's plan Wednesday to issue anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China, saying that the U.S. solar industry was materially injured by the imports.

A day later, the EU announced it would investigate alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, in addition to an existing probe into "dumping" allegations of such products in European markets.

Although Brussels says its decisions are independent from Washington's, which has provoked protest from China, together they will almost certainly further strain the already complicated trade ties due to a series of probes and tax impositions earlier.

And no winner is to emerge from this battle.

Not long after the EU brought its biggest ever trade case against China over solar products, China said last week it would launch an anti-dumping probe into imports of EU-made polysilicon. On Monday, it filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO), requesting consultations with the EU and certain member states concerning photovoltaic subsidies.

China's Ministry of Commerce also pledged to evaluate its earlier countervailing investigation into polysilicon imported from the U.S., a move seen as the latest response to the U.S. decision last month to impose heavy tariffs on Chinese solar panels.


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