Chinese solar companies feeling the ‘chill’  

中国光伏业广交会直面欧美贸易制裁之痛

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Guangzhou (CNS) -- Attendees of the ongoing Autumn Canton Fair, which acts as a barometer of China's foreign trade, said on Wednesday that they could sense a major change in the global solar energy market.

"Our company has been seriously affected by the recent ruling by the U.S. government, receiving far fewer and much smaller orders from the U.S. and Europe," said Zhang Xianyong, who is in charge of photovoltaic (PV) exports at a Nanjing-based company.

On October 10, the U.S. Commerce Department made its final ruling to levy anti-dumping duties ranging from 18.32 to 249.96 percent and to set countervailing duties ranging from 14.78 to 15.97 percent on solar panels and cells from China. Not long after, the European Union announced it would conduct an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese PV products.

A number of attendees at the fair said they sensed a "chill" coming from the international PV market.

The whole sector is trying to adapt to the new environment, said Lin Xiaofeng, deputy general manager of Topray Solar. He said giant PV companies such as Yingli were fighting for orders at the fair, which seldom happened at previous sessions.

Our largest clients used to come from the U.S. and Europe, but at this fair we only see medium- and small-sized clients from emerging markets, said Xie Fang, a senior manager at a new energy company in Hebei Province.