Overview
- Commerce, which issued the preliminary rates Thursday, set anti-dumping margins at 123.04% for India, 35.17% for Indonesia, and 22.46% for Laos on solar cells and modules.
- Importers must now post cash deposits at those rates, which layer on top of earlier subsidy duties and lift the combined preliminary exposure to roughly 234% for many Indian exporters, 121% to 178% for Indonesia, and about 103% for Laos.
- Anti-dumping duties target prices set below fair value, while countervailing duties offset foreign subsidies, and the two remedies are separate but cumulative on each shipment.
- Commerce preliminarily found critical circumstances for several named Indian producers and for many exporters in Indonesia and Laos, enabling duties to reach back up to 90 days for those firms.
- Final decisions are due later this year, with Commerce’s determinations followed by an ITC injury ruling on October 19 that could either cement the tariffs with orders on October 26 or trigger refunds of the deposits if the case fails.