US tariff investigation clouds solar panel products commerce

Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found

Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did not damage the US solar industry.

"More than 90 Chinese companies are involved in the case. We are helping them to prepare materials. The priority is to prove they did not harm the US solar industry because it directly affects whether there will be additional duties and how high such duties may be," an unnamed source with the photovoltaic branch of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products said on Friday.