Washington,The US is looking at the recent decision of India to impose anti-dumping duties on US solar panels, a senior American trade official has said.
“On the India anti-dumping duties, we will be
looking carefully at those, given that it’s an important sector,” a senior
official from the US Trade Representatives said.
“We have begun a case with respect to India
related to a local content provision that their national solar programme has in
place. So there is another aspect of the solar industry and India, we are in
litigation at the WTO at this time,” the official said.
The Indian Commerce Ministry has recommended
levying anti-dumping duty on solar cells imported from the US, Malaysia, China
and Chinese Taipei, a move that is likely to provide relief to struggling
manufacturers back home.
Concluding the one-and-a-half year long probe
into allegations that cheap solar cells are being dumped into India, the
ministry has suggested restrictive duty in the range of $0.11 to $0.81 per peak
watt.The levy suggested for such cells coming from the US is $0.11 to $0.48 per
peak watt.
The notification to impose anti-dumping duty is likely to be issued by
the new government which will assume office after swearing-in of BJP leader
Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister on May 26.
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