Comments on: EU Votes 18–4 Against Provisional Chinese Solar Duties http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/eu-votes-18-4-against-provisional-chinese-solar-duties/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 04:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Dill Weed http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/eu-votes-18-4-against-provisional-chinese-solar-duties/#comment-163657 Wed, 29 May 2013 21:23:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52240#comment-163657 EU can scoop up cheaply made panels while the US sits on the sidelines. Probably a good thing, I think.

]]> By: James Wimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/eu-votes-18-4-against-provisional-chinese-solar-duties/#comment-163600 Wed, 29 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52240#comment-163600 Good news from the sausage factory. I can’t believe the full Commission (it’s not up to de Gucht alone) will go ahead with very disruptive provisional duties for 6 months when it knows that definitive ones will be voted down in December.

The Chinese government won with old-fashioned arm-twisting of EU governments (“Nice little export market you have here, shame if anything happened to it”), but so what. Cheap PV is far more important to the world than where it’s made. China is admittedly currently helping (many of) its solar PV producers stay afloat through a temporary bad patch – like the rescue of GM by the US government.

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