TAIPEI: The U.S. Department of Commerce (through its U.S. International Trade Administration) issued instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (U.S. Customs) for collecting cash deposits specified in the alleged less than fair value import (dumping) investigation against Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic (CSPV) products from Taiwan.
The U.S. Customs instructions implement the December 16, 2014 Affirmative Final Determination of ITA with respect to CSPV products from Taiwan. The decision made an immediate change in the antidumping (AD) cash deposit rates collected by U.S. Customs on subject Taiwanese CSPV products and changed the product scope description of the subject products.
ITA has now instructed U.S. Customs to collect cash deposits on subject CSPV products entered, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in amounts equivalent to the dumping margins determined in the Final Determination.
The U.S. Customs instructions further provide that if the exporter of the subject products does not have its own cash deposit rate, then the rate for the producer which supplied those products will be used. If neither the exporter nor the producer has a separate rate, then the “all others” rate of 19.50% will be used.
Taiwanese CSPV products is more simple to apply and more straightforward. For the Taiwan investigation, the assembly of CSPV products in Taiwan from cells of any other country but China will exclude the assembled product from the scope of this investigation. The scope continues to cover Taiwanese cells and CSPV products assembled with Taiwanese cells anywhere but China.
