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U.S. Slaps High Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels

The United States on Thursday announced the imposition of antidumping tariffs of more than 31 percent on solar panels from China. The move by the Commerce Department is certain to infuriate Chinese officials already upset after recent bilateral frictions over China’s human rights policies and its increasingly confrontational approach toward American allies like the Philippines and Japan.

The antidumping decision is among the biggest in American history, covering one of the largest and fastest-growing categories of imports from China, the world’s largest exporter. The department said the United States bought $3.1 billion worth of Chinese solar cells last year, giving China more than half the American market for the devices.

Many solar panel installers in the United States have opposed tariffs on Chinese panels, contending that inexpensive imports have helped spur many homeowners and businesses to put solar panels on their rooftops. The new tariffs are likely to mean a substantial increase in the price of solar panels here.

Chinese officials have been indignant at American criticism of their solar power industry, pointing out that the United States has urged China for years to embrace renewable energy as a way to reduce air pollution, combat climate change and limit the need for oil imports from politically volatile countries in the Mideast.

Government support for solar energy is an important feature of China’s current Five-Year Plan, which runs through 2015, although Premier Wen Jiabao publicly cautioned in March that he was becoming concerned about overcapacity in the sector.

Li Junfeng, an energy policy maker and regulator in the Chinese government who is also the president of the government-controlled Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, responded angrily to the American decision.

“This is really a surprise,” he said in a telephone interview. “It’s really dangerous.” Mr. Li said that Chinese companies would “certainly” retaliate by filing a trade case at China’s commerce ministry accusing big American chemical companies of dumping polysilicon, the main ingredient in solar panels, on the Chinese market.

The American decision was made by civil servants in a quasi-judicial process that is heavily insulated by law from political interference and does not represent a deliberate attempt by the Obama administration to confront China on trade policy. But that distinction has been largely lost in China, where the solar panel issue has been on e of many causes embraced online by the country’s vociferous ultranationalists, who put heavy pressure on Chinese officials to respond forcefully to perceived snubs to China.

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Delightful to see China has been a large industrial country, one of the main forces to manufacture clean energy products.
Maybe deep processing and exporting to other countries and areas are alternative ways. The US seems to have less freedom than before, levying heavy taxes on domestic citizens and avoiding large quantities of unexpensive imports by imposing anti-dumping duties.

Although I have got used to this kind of bad news,I try to ignore it.Indeed, the export is confronted with serious chanllenges.Firstly,a normal exchange rate rather than a undervalued one,but foreign politicians and economists still criticize that China undervalued RMB.Secondly,the global economy is in the mud,UK and USA have cut its growth forecast, the performance of emerging market is not satisfactory and the EU debt crisis seems endless.What's more,increasing cost of labor and materialprice.
Trade friction is more common in election year,trade policy is an important chip for presental candidates.Antidumping tariff is the result of gambing of interested parties.To analyse this problem,to consider political cost and benefit is critical.
Besides,China has its fault to some extent.Chinese solar panels take more than half of American market,which gives excuse to magnify its affact.Futhermore,goveronment support directly lead the boom and overcapacity of the industry.This fully prove the saying "do the wrong thing with a well-intentioned heart".It's time to open up new market for the device maker.

This is the reality. When China has that power, it is also likely for it to act the same.

给力！

This practice of  Amercian let me think about the concept -阴谋论…Maybe it only that I think too  much.

Trade war between the two countries is the long war.

I totally agree with shenxiaoqiang's analysis of china's fault-do the wrong thing with a well-intentioned heart.

It is nothing but ailways happened. The Chinese workers have low income than the same one of  another country.Seconfly ,the  value of the land in China do not caiculate in the cost of products.

I think China have to start to learn how to deal with this kind of confrontation,especially from American.