Although China added 53 GW of new PV installed capacity in 2017, representing an increase of more than 53.6% over the same period of previous year, ranking first in the world for five consecutive years, the export of PV modules in China this year is not easy and can even be described in terms of twists and turns.
The good news is that on September 16, the European Commission released the final announcement of mid-term review of photovoltaic double countermeasures against China and decided to change the form of measures to replace the original price promises with a minimum price. Once a month, the first price cut began on October 1, the last one on July 1 next year.
But also in 2017, the overseas market share of China's photovoltaic products hit harder.
First, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) made a damage award on the '201 Investigation of Photovoltaic Cells and Components' and found that imported products have caused serious damage to the industries in the United States. The disease will study restrictions on imported products, of which China's PV products bear the brunt .
It is reported that U.S. President Donald Trump has decided on January 22, 2018: As of February 7, 2018, the United States will impose a four-year safeguard tariff on imported photovoltaic cells and components. The first year The tax rate is 30%, followed by an annual decrease of 5 percentage points and a fourth year tax rate of 15%, but 2.5GW of import quotas are exempt from this tax each year.
Similarly, India is also "out of hand." On July 21, 2017, its Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that it will launch an anti-dumping investigation on imported PV cells and modules from China and Malaysia and will decide on imports from China and Malaysia Solar cells charge up to 70% defense tax (the latest news may be lower than this figure).
The United States and India are very important to China's PV industry, especially in India. According to reports, from January to September 2017, about one-third of China's $ 8 billion in PV exports went to India.
At the same time, according to the statistics of China Photovoltaic Industry Association, January-November 2017, China's PV module exports amounted to 9.45 billion US dollars, that is 10-11 months, China's PV module exports of about 1.45 billion US dollars, of which, The U.S. demand has been 'drastically' driven by the 30% import tariffs on PV modules announced by U.S. President Trump. In order to avoid high tariffs, U.S. customers imported a large amount of PV products from China in the fourth quarter to make 2017 China's fourth quarter delivery of PV modules to US customers is almost 12 times that of the first three quarters.
From these two perspectives, although the exports of PV modules in our country suffered quite a lot of obstacles in 2017, the overall export volume has not received any significant impact under the "staggered" situation.
Therefore, although statistics from China Photovoltaic Industry Association show that in January-November 2017, China's PV module exports showed a slight drop compared with the figure of 9.68 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. However, in terms of export customs data, January 2017 -In December, China exported a total of about 37.9GW of export components, even a 16.6GW increase over 21.3GW in 2016. From this perspective, the overseas market of PV modules in China shows a certain degree of growth in 2017.
