Feds: Chinese Guilty of Illegally Dumping Solar Panels

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The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a unanimous 6-0 ruling Wednesday that said domestic companies had been hurt by the illegal dumping of solar panels by Chinese manufacturers. 

The Commerce Department is expected to follow the ruling by imposing tariffs between 24 percent to 36 percent on most Chinese solar imports, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

The ruling also reversed an earlier policy decision that imposed retroactive tariffs on panels. U.S. buyers of the Chinese panels were slapped with a bill for the cost difference, which they now expect to recoup.

This includes Marco Mangelsdorf, president of ProVision Solar on the Big Island, who was charged $138,000.

He told Civil Beat that he expected to get his money back. 

“It’s the best news I could have heard from the International Trade Commission,” he said.

(Photo: Marco Mangelsdorf, ProVision Solar)

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