Draft Recommendation to Governments for the Establishment of a U.S.-China Solar Agreement
Conflict: Existing solar-related trade remedy orders and investigations between the United States and China are causing significant adverse and unintended effects across the global solar supply chain, without sufficiently addressing the underlying causes of unfair trade competition.For example, to avoid the U.S. AD/CVD orders on imports of solar cells and modules from China, Chinese manufacturers are assembling third-country cells into modules in China and then importing these modules into the United States free of the AD/CVD orders.
SEIA, Leading Business Groups Urge Vice President to Raise India Trade Concerns
With widespread U.S. concerns over India’s trade practices and policies, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) – along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and nearly 40 other leading American business groups – are urging Vice President Biden to raise these concerns during his visit to India later this month.
Protest Letter Regarding India Trade Policies
The Solar Energy Industries Association has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other leading business groups to protest “protectionist” trade policies followed by India. In a letter to President Obama – signed by SEIA President & CEO Rhone Resch and other top business leaders – India has “engaged in a persistent pattern of discrimination designed to benefit India’s business community at the expense of American jobs.”
SEIA Statement on China Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations Targeting U.S. Polysilicon Manufacturers
WASHINGTON – Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today in response to China’s decision to initiate antidumping and countervailing duty investigations against U.S. polysilicon imported into China from the United States:
U.S. AD/CVD Trade Investigation Resources
Compilation of relevant documents from the Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission regarding the U.S. AD/CVD investigation into Chinese solar cells.
SEIA Statement on Chinese Ruling Against US Renewable Energy Programs
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today in response to reports that China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has preliminarily determined that six state-level U.S. renewable energy programs violate global trade rules.
SEIA Statement on United Steel Workers' Petition to U.S. Trade Representative
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President and CEO Rhone Resch released the following statement following news that the United Steel Workers union has filed a Section 301 petition asking the U.S. Trade Representative to formally investigate China’s trade practices in the renewable energy sector.
SEIA Seeks Mutually-Satisfactory Resolution of Growing U.S.-China Solar Trade Conflict
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association representing companies across the solar value chain, released the following statement in the wake of today's decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose additional duties on solar cells and modules imported into the United States from China:
SEIA Statement on Expected Petitions for the U.S. Government to Investigate Chinese Trade Practices
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today in response to news that certain domestic producers of solar energy products intend to file anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
U.S. Solar Industry Was Net Global Exporter by $1.9B in 2010
A new report shows that the U.S. is central to the global solar supply chain. In 2010, U.S. solar firms achieved a positive trade flow of $1.9 billion globally according to SEIA® and GTM Research’s U.S. Solar Energy Trade Assessment 2011. Photovoltaic (PV) components accounted for more than 99 percent of the year’s exports, with solar heating and cooling (SHC) claiming the remainder of the positive balance.