Canada’s International Trade Tribunal is running an interim review of the country’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties on solar modules and laminates from China, following a request to exclude flexible solar panels that affix to curved surfaces.

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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has initiated an interim review of its order concerning the dumping and subsidizing of solar modules and laminates originating in or exported from China.

The review concerns order RR-2020-001, issued on Mar. 25, 2021, which encompasses Chinese solar modules and laminates composed of crystalline silicon cells and thin-film photovoltaic products made of amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride or copper indium gallium selenide.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    These anti-dumping duties have been in since 2014 with no appreciable result in jumpstarting a home-grown PV panel industry. So I think we can safely say that the only effect of them has been to cripple PV use in Canada over the past decade. The large users will just do an end run on a container of panels from China via Vietnam, anyway. So it’s the small user that gets screwed. Maybe that’s by design, I guess we need to follow the money to see where this regulatory lockin is benefitting someone. But it isn’t consumers.

    I’d have been fine with it if there was a domestic industry to protect, but it doesn’t exist in NA. And before some smart guy says “but Canadian Solar!!!1!”, you’ll want to look into that brand a bit closer.

    • pathwonder@kopitalk.netEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Agreed, as far as solar installers are concerned they can’t get enough product to smoothly complete their projects even before the delusional American tariffs.