WASHINGTON: The United States has slapped new import duties on solar panels and other related products from China after the Commerce department ruled they were produced using Chinese government subsidies, potentially inflaming trade tensions between the two countries.
The US arm of German solar manufacturer SolarWorld AG filed a petition complaining that Chinese manufacturers are sidestepping duties imposed in 2012 by shifting production of the cells used to make their panels to Taiwan and continuing to flood the US market with cheap products.