WTO panel rejects China’s claims, sides with U.S. in solar cell case

A World Trade Organization panel has rejected China’s challenge to U.S. solar safeguard measures, finding that tariff-rate quotas imposed by the U.S. on Chinese imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells -- key inputs in solar panels -- did not violate WTO rules. The Trump administration in 2018 imposed safeguard measures on imports of foreign crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules following a petition from two companies and a determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission that imports could harm...