DGAD Recommends Stiff 48 to 81 cents per Watt Anti-dumping Duty on Solar Cells from China, Taipei, Malaysia and US

• Artificial Valuation of Domestic Price in Countries of Exports Yields Big Dumping Margin

• Solar Projects Including National Solar Mission Suffer High Anti-dumping Protection to EOU and SEZ Units

• Duty to come into effect only after Customs Notification

Anti-Dumping Investigation on Solar Cell Modules or Panels exported from China PR, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and USA.

Solar Manufacturer’s Association alleged dumping of Solar Cells. Domestic producers M/s Indosolar Ltd, a 100% Export Oriented (EOU) Unit, M/s Websol Energy Systems Ltd, a unit in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and M/s Jupiter Solar Power Limited, a unit in the Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) led the charge with support from:

i. Moser Baer Photovoltaic Ltd.

ii. Moser Baer Solar Systems Pvt Ltd.

iii. Lanco Solar Pvt Ltd.

iv. Tata BP Solar India Ltd

v. Birla Surya Ltd. and 10 others

After examining the issues raised and submissions made by the interested parties and facts made available before the Authority, as recorded in this finding, the Authority concluded that:

a. The product under consideration has been exported to India from subject countries below its normal value, thus resulting in dumping of the product.

b. The domestic industry has suffered material injury due to dumping of the product under consideration.

c. The material injury has been caused by the dumped imports of the subject goods originating in or exported from the subject countries.

Solar power generation has the potential to cater to the larger energy requirements of the country and the Government has been formulating policies and programmes to support the developers of large scale solar power projects in India through various schemes such as JNNSM under the MNRE. Information available in the public domain shows that the global manufacturing capacity of subject goods is several times higher than that of India and India has a rapidly growing domestic demand for the subject goods.

Highlights of the Duty Recommended on Solar Cell Modules or Panel

Country of origin	Country of export	Producer	Exporter	Duty amount $ per Watt
(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)
USA	USA	First Solar Inc, USA	First Solar GmbH Mainz, Germany	0.11
USA	USA	Any combination other than mentioned in above		0.48
China PR	China	Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Changhsu)	Canadian Solar International Ltd, Hong Kong	0.64
China PR	China	Non-Sampled Producer/exporters	Non-Sampled Producer/exporters	0.64
China PR	China	Any combination other than mentioned in above		0.81
Malaysia	Other Countries	Any	Any	0.62
Chinese Taipei	Taipei and Other Countries	Any	Any	0.59