18.09.2012: Several Indian solar producers have filed a trade complaint with Indian authorities alleging that solar manufacturers from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US are dumping solar modules on the Indian market. According to China Daily, which cites Chinese newspaper Guangzhou Daily, the unnamed companies are asking Indian trade authorities to launch an antidumping investigation into solar module imports coming from these countries. The article does not clarify if the complaint also includes imports of solar cells and thin-film modules. Indian producers have long complained that solar imports – mainly those from the US – are negatively impacting India’s local photovoltaic industry. To combat this trend, India’s national solar program includes a domestic content requirement for crystalline silicon products. The requirement, however, has not been as successful as was planned – due in part to the fact that the requirement does not apply to thin-film installations. Last December, a rumored investigation into imports of US and Chinese thin-film modules never came to pass. However, complaints from the industry have not died down. In August, India-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) complained that Indian solar projects continue to use PV components produced in the US while 80 percent of Indian PV manufacturing capacity remains dormant. This, CSE claims, is due to the fact that low-interest construction loans provided by the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) force project developers to buy PV components from US producers. Due to India’s domestic content requirement, this stipulation primarily benefits US thin-film producers. CSE alleges that the Ex-Im and OPIC loans, due to their strings-attached nature, are akin to subsidies and give US thin-film developers an unfair advantage. … Source: China Daily; Summary: PHOTON http://www.chinadaily.com.cn http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-09/17/content_15763155.htm |
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