Cambodian solar companies no more accepting United States toll probe

(Reuters) – Two Cambodian solar business will certainly no more accept a united state profession examination right into claims they are swamping the marketplace with panels valued listed below their price of manufacturing, according to files submitted with the Department of Commerce.

Solar Long and Hounen Solar, in different letters datedOct 15, claimed via a united state lawyer that they were no more able to devote sources to the antidumping probe.

Their lawyer, Craig Lewis of Hogan Lovells, had no additional remark.

The newest profession situation to roil the united state solar market started in April, when numerous residential makers asked President Joe Biden’s management to enforce tolls on items from Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand– the biggest resources of panels in the United States.

Solar Long and Hounen Solar were chosen by profession authorities in June as supposed obligatory participants in the examination due to their huge export quantities to theUnited States Mandatory participants act as proxies for various other manufacturers and are qualified for a different toll price than the one Commerce uses country-wide.

Solar imports from Cambodia are down around 37% this year, according to united state Census Bureau information.

It was not promptly clear if the business would certainly remain to take part in the associated anti-subsidy examination.

Commerce Department authorities were not promptly offered for remark.

An lawyer for the business behind the profession situation, that include Hanwha’s Qcells and First Solar, claimed Commerce would likely punish the Cambodian manufacturers for taking out from the probe.

“This is a significant development, because with both Cambodian respondents withdrawing from the antidumping investigation, they are failing to cooperate with the Commerce Department’s investigation,” Tim Brightbill, a lawyer for the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, claimed in a declaration.

(Reporting by Nichola Groom; Editing by Sandra Maler)