U.S. companies seek AD, CV duties on solar imports from four countries

Domestic manufacturers are calling on the Commerce Department to initiate antidumping and countervailing probes into imports of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, the latest step in a years-long effort by U.S. producers to counter what they say are unfairly traded imports by Chinese-owned and headquartered companies. The “American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee,” a group that includes U.S. producers Convalt Energy, First Solar, Inc., Hanwha Q CELLS USA, Inc. and Mission Solar Energy LLC,...