U.S. Commerce Department decides preliminary anti-dumping tariffs on Southeast Asian solar products

The U.S. government has made a preliminary decision to impose anti-dumping tariffs on solar products imported from Southeast Asian countries.

The move follows a request from the U.S. Solar Manufacturing Trade Alliance Committee, which consists of seven companies, including Hanwha Q Cells USA and First Solar, which produce solar power facilities or components in the U.S.

The U.S. Commerce Department said it had preliminary decisions to impose anti-dumping tariffs of 21.31 to 271.2% for each company on solar cells imported from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Anti-dumping tariffs of 21.31% for Malaysian products from Chinese company Jingkosola, 56.51% for Vietnamese products, 77.85% for Thai products from Chinese company Trina Solar and 54.46% for Vietnamese products were calculated.

However, the U.S. Department of Commerce has not set anti-dumping tariffs on products produced by Hanwha Q Cells in Malaysia, Reuters reported.

Anti-dumping tariffs are a trade relief system that imposes tariffs within the range of the difference from normal prices when foreign goods are sold below normal prices and damage their own industries.