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Historically, renewable energy industries formed unified advocacy coalitions (Meckling et al., 2015). An important feature of the solar PV trade dispute, however, is the division of the solar industry into protectionist and free trade advocacy coalitions in response to the rise in imports from China.
While the US and China cooperated in renewable energy development, since 2011 the countries have engaged in a protracted and major trade dispute in the solar photovoltaics industry.
Therefore, the escalation of the solar panel anti-dumping case into a major trade dispute, which highlighted both the possible contradiction between the promotion of strategic industrial interests and the pursuit of common global climate goals, and the inadequacy of trade law to resolve it, attracted unprecedented attention.
The dispute between the EU and China regarding the trade in solar panels has been commonly explained in terms of power politics, whereby a mercantile China exploited European internal divisions to its advantage. But the trade defence case was also criticized for running against European climate policy goals.
European Commission (2012b) The EU’s investigation into solar panel imports from China does not harm Europe’s climate goals. Factsheet. 10 September European Commission (2013a) Draft guidelines on union interest. DG Trade Working Document Evenett SJ (2013) China EU solar panel trade dispute: rhetoric versus reality. VOX. 5 June
The solar panel trade defence case turned into a wider political battle when several Member States confronted the European Commission over its proposals as to how to solve these disputes.
In 2012, the European Commission launched an antidumping investigation into solar photovoltaic cells, wafers and modules imported from China. This covered a trade value …
The solar panel dispute is by far the biggest trade controversy between the EU and China. Under the limate and C Energy Package the EU became the largestmarket for solar panel products, …
In 2012, the European Commission launched an antidumping investigation into solar photovoltaic cells, wafers and modules imported from China. This covered a trade value estimated at 21 billion euros in 2011, or …
The protracted and major solar PV trade dispute that emerged between China and the United States in 2011, when the US government imposed anti-subsidy and …
This chapter examines the EU-China solar panel dispute, the largest trade defense investigation ever done by DG Trade. This chapter first provides background …
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The trade defense case concerned photovoltaic (PV) cells and panels used to produce renewable energy, which is a core element of the European strategy to fight climate …
The solar panel dispute is by far the biggest trade controversy between the EU and China. Under the limate and C Energy Package the EU became the largestmarket for solar panel products, …
Solar panels are made of photovoltaic cells that generate electricity by absorbing sunlight and using that light energy to create an electrical current.
The paper analyzes the interactions between trade and renewable energy policies based on the EU-China solar panel dispute which is the most significant antidumping …
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The main goal of this paper is to examine the nature and sources of recent trade disputes in the solar photovoltaic sector, which is the most dynamically growing sector in the …
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the association for European solar manufacturers. As solar panel imports from China in 2011 were valued at more than EUR 20 billion, the became the EU''s largest trade probe …