U.S. solar companies urge Commerce to reject AD/CVD circumvention claims

More than 190 U.S. solar companies are calling on the Commerce Department to dismiss requests by an anonymous industry coalition to expand longstanding antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules, saying the duties, if imposed, would impede economic recovery and climate goals. An industry group calling itself the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (or “A-SMACC”) in August petitioned Commerce to investigate imports of certain solar products from companies in Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, where...