More shots have been fired in the EU trade measures dispute involving Chinese PV manufacturers. The usual suspects have been championing their respective stances on the trade measures, as EU ProSun calls for hasher enforcement, prompting SolarPower Europe to again calls for the measures to be brought to an end. The trade barriers in question are a minimum import price (MIP) and anti-dumping measures, which were introduced by the EU against Chinese PV manufacturers in 2013, as a means to protect the European solar industry. SolarWorld has always been the most vocal supporter of the trade measures - as a European module manufacturer - and so has the SolarWorld-backed organization Prosun, whose president, Milan Nitzschke, is also the vice president of SolarWorld. A new wave of dumping In its most recent attack on the practices of Chinese PV manufacturers, ProSun claimed that state-backed overproduction of solar modules in China is causing a new wave of dumping, which, in turn, is causing job losses in the solar industry all over the world, and especially in Europe. Unsurprisingly, it pointed to SolarWorld letting go of 500 temporary staff earlier in the week as proof to back up its claim. The organization blames this on failed state planning on the part of the Chinese government, which is resulting in Chinese selling modules for prices below manufacturing costs ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...