7.10.2015: In hopes of ending the long-running EU-China solar trade dispute, a group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) has formally asked the European Commission to end the minimum price undertaking and the antidumping and anti-subsidy duties imposed on Chinese solar imports in 2013. The group included MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP), the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the Greens/EFA Group, and the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group. The promoters of the initiative claim that duties imposed on Chinese solar products are contributing significantly to the slowdown of the European solar sector. »Free trade and the environment go hand in hand. With the EU's very ambitious climate targets, EU trade policy should do everything it can to help reach those goals. But by restricting free trade and imposing a high minimum import price on solar panels, we are making it more difficult for ordinary citizens and businesses to do their part in reducing carbon emissions. That's why I hope the Commission will keep its promise to abolish antidumping duties and the minimum import price in December,« said MEP Christofer Fjellner, who organised the letter. In early September, SolarWorld-led coalition EU ProSun, whose complaint triggered the EU antidumping and anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese solar imports in late 2012, asked the EU to renew the duties. Earlier in May, EU Prosun had submitted to the EU a formal request to start a second antidumping and anti-subsidy investigation on the PV products shipped by China to the EU countries. The association claimed that Chinese manufacturers were shipping their products to third countries and importing them to the EU country avoiding the minimum prices imposed by the EU. © PHOTON
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