THE WORLD SOLAR TRADE WAR GOES ON

Harsh Reality of the Post Brussels/Beijing Anti-Dumping Episode

Finlay Colville, March 12, 2014 (SolarBuzz)

“One year on from Brussels and Beijing reaching a compromised solution for the supply of Chinese solar PV components to Europe, it is a valid…[to] recall some of the goals…Chinese supply was to be capped (in GW terms) coming into Europe…A floor pricing was to be established, in particular for c-Si modules from China…[and] European solar PV manufacturers would subsequently have the scope to sell at higher ASPs than this floor pricing, allowing them to be competitive again and see higher margins…Chinese Tier 1 c-Si module suppliers now have an accepted pricing level that is higher than they may have had before, and is fixed…[But apart] from a very small subset of solar PV module suppliers to Europe (mainly the premium brand suppliers), other module suppliers are having to price below the Chinese floor price in order to get any business: the total opposite of the original goal…” click here for more

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