On December 16th, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its final anti-dumping and anti-subsidy (countervailing duty or CVD) rates for PV products imported from China and Taiwan, increasing rates for Chinese PV makers to even more prohibitive levels.The CVD rate for Trina Solar, the world's largest PV module maker, went up substantially. The preliminary CVD rate set for Trina in June was only 18.56%, but this has increased to 49.79%. Meanwhile subsidy rates for Suntech fell, but the China-wide rate increased from 26.89% to 38.72%.Dumping duties also increased. While Trina's increase was less than 1%, JinkoSolar and ReneSola's rate went from 58.87% to 78.42%. 43 "listed" PV makers including Yingli, Canadian Solar and other market leaders saw their rates increase from 42.33% to 52.13%. The "China-wide" rate for unlisted companies and smaller PV makers remained a massive 165%.As trade authorities consider that there ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...