Ministry of Commerce: Hope that the EU will completely terminate the PV countermeasures as soon as p

Wang Hejun, director of the Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, said on the 18th that the EU will revise its PV countermeasures against China to a lower price limit, expressing the hope that the EU will terminate the PV countermeasures completely.

On September 16, the European Commission issued a final ruling on the mid-term review and investigation of photovoltaic anti-dumping and countervailing measures against China, and decided to change the form of the measure. During the implementation period of the remaining one year, the original price commitment method was replaced with a lower one. Limit price.

Wang Hejun said that the Sino-European photovoltaic price commitment is the result of the joint efforts of the government and the industry under the high-level attention of both sides. It is a model for successfully resolving trade frictions through consultations and effectively balanced the interests of China and the EU in a certain historical stage. The Chinese side noticed that during the mid-term review review process, the European Commission partially absorbed the opinions of the Chinese government, industry organizations and enterprises, replaced the price commitment with a lower limit price method without an unlimited quantity, and gradually lowered the lower limit. Price level, which is a positive step for promoting the Sino-European photovoltaic trade as soon as possible to return to normal market conditions.

Wang Hejun said that the EU ’s countermeasures against photovoltaics have caused unnecessary distortions in the EU market objectively, which is not in the interest of China or the interests of the EU. China hopes that the EU will completely terminate the PV countermeasures as soon as possible, provide a more stable and predictable business environment for the cooperation between the two industries as soon as possible, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results for both industries. China is willing to continue to uphold the existing spirit of cooperation, develop China-EU economic and trade relations on the basis of mutual respect and win-win cooperation, and work with the EU to oppose protectionism, and jointly contribute to economic globalization and an open world economy.