The United States and Europe, and China negotiated solution proposed solar panels disputes

According to the U.S. "New York Times" reported that Beijing, Brussels and Washington officials and trade consultant revealed that the Obama administration and the EU has decided to negotiate with China, respectively, to solve the world's largest anti-dumping and countervailing duty trade cases, the cases involving China annually to the Western countries export value of about $ 30 billion of solar panels.

The plan began to take shape will fundamentally global market for polycrystalline solar panels will be divided into several regional markets. This will greatly enhance China - a dominant producer - export prices of solar panels, the means is to ask the Chinese enterprises to improve product prices, while limiting their total exports.

In exchange, the Chinese company exports solar panels will no longer be subject to high tariffs. The United States has imposed a total of approximately 30% in the tariff, while the EU is expected to be June 5 began to levy tariffs on about 50% of the similar and may date back to March 5. The Obama administration and the European Union made solar cell efficiency on raising import prices unanimous decision probably will not be welcomed by environmentalists. Some environmental groups have been very disappointed, since the tariff makes solar power can not afford the more competitive but more polluting fossil fuels.

Over the past four years, shipments from China has made a huge solar panel prices fell by 3/4. U.S. and European manufacturers insist that the decline in prices is the Chinese government subsidies and dumping caused by Chinese enterprises. This means negotiating solutions require a substantial increase in product prices.

May replace its current tariffs and price and quantity control objective is to protect the U.S. and European manufacturers against the Obama administration described in unfair competition. Western manufacturers and government agencies, said China's solar panels get huge subsidies from the Chinese government, and in the foreign markets at prices below production costs dumping.