According to the press, India's General Administration of Safeguards proposes to impose a 70% protection tax on imported solar cells - whether assembled into modules or panels - within 200 days because "the Indian imports are getting larger and the import conditions will be right Domestic manufacturing caused or may cause serious injury '.
According to the "Express Bulletin" website reported January 10, about 90% of India's solar cells rely on imports, mainly from China, according to the Indian General Administration of Safeguards said that despite the rapid expansion of domestic demand for solar cells, but the domestic industry market share But declining. From 2014 to 2015, the market share of domestic industries was 14%, but it dropped to 10% from 2017 to 2018.
Reported that the Indian General Administration of Safeguards proposed in the January 5 report levied 70% protection tax and said: 'before the final decision will be held in due course will hold a public hearing, the date will be notified.' Import the solar cell application protection tax levied on November 28, 2017 put forward by the Indian solar equipment manufacturers Association on behalf of five Indian manufacturers that five manufacturers include: Mundra Power Company Limited, solar India Ltd., Jupiter Te Solar Co., Weber Solar Energy Systems Co., Ltd. and Helios PV Co., Ltd. The Indian General Administration of Safeguards said: "The data provided by the domestic industry confirm this finding and the authorities will conduct further investigations."
The five applicants, whose total output accounts for more than 50% of India's solar cells, claim that due to soaring import of solar cells, "many manufacturers in India have virtually idle production facilities and have suffered huge losses that have paralyzed them." Therefore, The claimant demanded that a temporary protection tax be levied to "reduce the harm they have suffered."
Reportedly, solar cell production in China has more than doubled from 11.12 GW in 2012 to 27.78 GW in 2016.
"There is no blame for China's export direction on solar cells, but one substantive issue has arisen is that in the past two years both its direction and the volume of export trade have shifted in an important way toward India ... To illustrate, In 2012, China's exports to India accounted for only 1.52% of its total global exports, a figure that has risen to 21.58% by 2016. "The General Administration of Safeguards of India added.
According to the General Administration of Safeguards of India, although the domestic industry has set up production capacity to meet the growing demand for solar cells, the import volume has risen sharply and the landed price has continued to fall, resulting in such problems as' idle capacity and decreased sales volume. Domestic industry is suffering a very serious loss. '(Compile / Lu Di)
Photo Picture: A solar power plant near Hyderabad in southern India, where Chinese companies provided some solar panels and a full range of automatic solar tracking systems.
