Controversial anti dumping measures on solar panels from china will not be extended.
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This in turn resulted in the eu s largest ever trade probe covering a market worth approximately 21 billion euros.
Commission decides not to extend trade defence measures on solar panels from china.
Trade defence instruments such as anti dumping or anti subsidy duties are ways of protecting european production against international trade distortions.
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The high cost of such products resulted in slow growth of.
After having been in place for almost five years the eu anti dumping and anti subsidy measures on solar panels from china will expire at midnight on monday 3rd september.
This removed a large percentage of chinese solar panels from the european market and consequently led to increased cost of panels.
China s cheap solar panels have flooded the european market in recent years which triggered off complaints from the european producers.
These were then renewed in march 2017 for a period of 18 months only as opposed to the usual five years.
Beyond this threshold level anti dumping tariffs will enter into force.
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The eu first imposed anti dumping and anti subsidy measures for chinese solar panels wafers and cells in 2013 and extended them by 18 months in march last year signaling that they should then end.
The eu first imposed anti dumping and anti subsidy measures in december 2013 for a period of two years.
The european commission is imposing anti dumping tariffs on chinese solar panels in a move that could spark tit for tat retaliation from the world s second largest economy.