The U.S. ITC has determined in its section 201 review of crystalline PV solar cell imports that shipments increased in a way to cause “serious injury” to domestic industry. Final recommendations to President Trump are due by November 13. That the ITC reached that conclusion is not a surprise – average import values per cell dropped 80% in January from their October 2015 peak. They have recovered since, and are 48% lower than a year earlier in the past quarter. The volume comments are curious though: U.S. imports actually fell 0.4% on a year earlier in unit terms in the past 12 months, in...
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