PV Panels prices..here are your new duties & taxes !

rolion

( Rant ON )

Prices for PV panels will be increased with around 50% because of "new" taxes and duties.

" The rate of duties required of each solar company varies, with JA Solar for example willing to pay 51.5% AD and 5% anti-subsidy duties on its solar imports, rather than abide by MIP rules. For JinkoSolar, it is facing AD of 41.2% and anti-subsidy duties of 6.5%, while Suntech was slapped with an AD tariff of 48.6% when the duties were first introduced. "

No wonder why the world just gone mad...
How are we supposed to be "green" !??

Read more at the source HERE.

PS
More on that...i wonder who the flick is behind maintaining these increased duties ad taxes...even if the companies and business and now NGOs are warning that the measures are wrong !!

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Five prominent NGOs have written a letter to the European Commission, calling for an end to trade duties that are applied to Chinese PV manufacturers, claiming that they are counterproductive for action on climate change, adding to the mounting pressure on the EU to remove the duties, as 400 companies sent a similar letter earlier in the week.

It’s been another roller-coaster week in the battle over the EU trade measures against Chinese PV manufacturers, culminating in another letter, this time from a group of NGOs, calling for the removal of the duties. Addressed to the European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström, the letter was signed by executives of Climate Action Network, Greenpeace, WWF, E3G, and EKOenergy, and comes just a day after 400 European companies sent a similar letter to Commissioner Malmström calling for an end to the measures.


The premise for the letter was the ratifying of the Paris Agreement by the European Union, and thus the need to dramatically reduce global carbon emissions, stating that transitioning the energy sector to renewable energy is critical for this to happen. The letter then pointed to solar, arguing that the trade measures against the Chinese solar manufacturers “are making solar power more expensive and slowing down the deployment of solar power in Europe.”


The trade measures in question are the minimum import price (MIP), and the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on Chinese PV imports. The EU adopted the trade measures in December 2013, as a means of projecting Europe’s solar industry, however, many within the industry feel that the measures are counterproductive, and are actually hindering its development.


“Instead of putting citizens at the heart of the Energy Union, the present trade measures negatively impact consumers and make their participation in the energy transition costlier,” the letter continued. “Removing the measures would help more Europeans to become active energy consumers or ‘prosumers’ – an objective that all members of the College of Commissioners should support.”


Sweetening the deal further, the NGOs pointed to the positive economic impact that removing the trade measures could have, namely the new jobs that would be created, should the industry be allowed to thrive. It drummed in the point that there needs to be consistency between the EU’s climate policy and trade policy for either to be effective.


Mounting pressure


Earlier in the week, a staggering 400 European companies signed an even more strongly worded letter to Commissioner Malmström calling for an end to the trade measures against Chinese PV companies. The letter stated that the measures had been “ruinous” for European manufacturers, had led to the loss of thousands of jobs and had stifled the entire solar sector. A group of 34 solar and renewable energy organizations, led by SolarPower Europe, had sent a similar letter in July.


“Companies have signed from every EU member state, from all segments of the value chain – including steel, chemicals, engineering, developers, installers, power sales,” said Jochen Hauff, board director of SolarPower Europe, commenting on the most recent letter from the European companies. “European solar SMEs and large corporations are united in the belief that these trade duties must go, and now is the time for the Commission to act and remove them through the ongoing expiry review.”


Maintaining defiance, on the same day the NGOs sent the letter to Commissioner Malmström, the European Commission itself announced that it is seeking to remove five Chinese PV manufacturers from its MIP agreement due to alleged violations of the undertaking. It proposes the removal of Huashun China, Seraphim China, JinkoSolar, Risen Energy, and Wuxi Suntech. They will be joining China’s other major manufacturers, including Trina Solar and JA Solar, in leaving the undertaking.


With the new letters, and the dropping out of China’s major PV players, pressure is mounting on the trade measures. It seems almost universally agreed in Europe that the measures are hurting the industry right along the value chain, which surely will spell an end to the duties, or at least an adaptation of the measures, in the not too distant future.

Read more on the European Solar Sector calling for ... here



The European Commission's trade measures have been ruinous for European manufacturers, led to the loss of thousands of jobs and stymied growth in the sector, members of SolarPower Europe argue in a letter to Brussels.

More than 400 European companies from all EU member states sent a letter to European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom on Wednesday calling for an end to the trade measures on Chinese solar modules and cells in place since 2012.

“The volume of European companies opposed to the trade measures is staggering,” said Jochen Hauff, board director of industry lobby group SolarPower Europe and head of business development, energy industry and policy at BayWa r.e. renewable energy GmbH, one of the leaders of the initiative.

“Companies have signed from every EU member state, from all segments of the value chain -- including steel, chemicals, engineering, developers, installers, power sales," Hauff added. "European solar SMEs and large corporations are united in the belief that these trade duties must go, and now is the time for the Commission to act and remove them through the ongoing expiry review.”

Representing European manufacturing, fellow SolarPower Europe board director Christian Westermeier, vice president of sales, marketing and application engineering at Wacker Chemie AG, said the measures had been “ruinous” for European manufacturers and led to “the loss of thousands of jobs in manufacturing.” The removal of the trade measures would stimulate growth in manufacturing throughout the solar value chain and support the process of regaining this lost European employment, he added.

Board director Sebastian Berry, head of external affairs at Solarcentury, argued that while the trade measures had been in place for a long time, they had brought only decline to the European solar sector.

“As a leading European solar company, we need the Commission to remove these measures to allow the sector to grow sustainably again," Berry said. "If Europe is serious about leading in renewables, then the solar sector must be allowed to grow again and the European Commission can support this with one easy action -- removing the trade measures.”

The case represents the largest ever trade dispute between the EU and China and “seriously impacts the possibility for Europe to reach its climate objectives,” according to SolarPower Europe.

The European Commission is currently carrying out its expiry review into the trade duties placed on solar modules and cells originating in China and is expected to complete it by March 2017.


Read more: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/european-solar-sector-calls-for-end-of-trade-measures-on-chinese-products_100026468/#ixzz4QGjcARVE