China Solar Cells: Commerce Intends to Create Another Off-Grid Panels Exemption From AD/CVD
The Commerce Department intends to create another new exemption for off-grid panels from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review published Sept. 18. Commerce said “substantially all” U.S. producers of solar cells, including original petitioner American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing, don't oppose Source Global's request to create the exemption. Should Commerce finalize this determination in its final results, it will exempt the following products from the scope of AD/CVD on solar cells:
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"Off-grid crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels in rigid form with a glass cover, with each of the following physical characteristics, whether or not assembled into a fully completed off-grid hydropanel whose function is conversion of water vapor into liquid water:
- (A) A total power output of no more than 180 watts per panel at 155 degrees Celsius;
- (B) A surface area of less than 16,000 square centimeters (cm2) per panel;
- (C) Include a keep-out area of approximately 1,200 cm2 around the edges of the panel that does not contain solar cells;
- (D) Do not include a built-in inverter;
- (E) Do not have a frame around the edges of the panel;
- (F) Include a clear glass back panel;
- (G) Must include a permanently connected wire that terminates in a two-port rounded rectangular, sealed connector;
- (H) Include a thermistor installed into the permanently connected wire before the twoport connector; and
- (I) Include exposed positive and negative terminals at opposite ends of the panel, not enclosed in a junction box."
Should it create the exemption, Commerce would order liquidation, without regard to AD/CVD, and the refund of any cash deposits, for any unliquidated entries of covered products that aren't covered by the final results of an administrative review or automatic liquidation instructions from Commerce. Commerce’s final results in this changed circumstances review are due by April 2024.