China Solar Cells: Commerce Sets Another Off-Grid Exemption From AD/CV Duties
The Commerce Department is creating another new exemption for off-grid panels from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), it said in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Dec. 16. Commerce continued to find “substantially all” U.S. producers of solar cells, including original petitioner SunPower Manufacturing, do not oppose Source Global's request to create the exemption. The agency will add the following exemption to the scope of the AD/CVD orders:
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Off-grid CSPV panels in rigid form with a glass cover, with each of the following physical characteristics, whether or not assembled into a fully completed off-grid hydropanel whose function is conversion of water vapor into liquid water:
- A total power output of no more than 80 watts per panel
- A surface area of less than 5,000 square centimeters (cm2) per panel
- Do not include a built-in inverter
- Do not have a frame around the edges of the panel
- Include a clear glass back panel
- Must include a permanently connected wire that terminates in a two-port rectangular connector.
The new exemption takes effect for all entries not covered by the final results of an administrative review or automatic liquidation instructions from Commerce (i.e., entries on or after Dec. 1, 2020, for AD duties, and Jan. 1, 2020, for CV duties). Commerce will order liquidation without AD/CV duties for all unliquidated entries on or after those dates.