At the meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body today, China's first request for a panel to hear its complaint against Indian measures in the solar and IT sectors was blocked.

Following up on earlier anti-dumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cases against imports of Chinese solar products, both from China itself and from Chinese companies operating in various third countries, the U.S. solar industry has now accused Chinese companies of circumventing existing AD/CVD cases by selling through Ethiopia.

Yesterday, China followed up on an earlier request for consultations with a request that a WTO panel be established to hear its complaint about discriminatory measures adopted by India in the solar and information technology sectors.

In recent months, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced preliminary affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules (solar cells), from India, Indonesia, and Laos. The Indonesia and Laos investigations considered allegations

In a judgment issued on August 22 of last year, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that the Biden administration’s two-year suspension of anti-dumping/countervailing duty collections on solar products was illegal. This ruling allowed for retroactive tariffs to be collected on billions of

In a U.S. court case related to an import ban on solar products by Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry Co., Ltd., involving concerns about forced labor, the U.S. government requested and received a court remand to reconsider its original determination. In its reconsideration, it concluded that Hoshine "

In recent filings with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), several solar companies have presented their arguments that the Commerce Department erred by treating "transnational subsidies" from China as countervailable.