Commerce Initiates Circumvention Inquiry on Chinese Solar Cells Routed via Ethiopia and Vietnam

Commerce is launching a country-wide circumvention inquiry under AD/CVD orders A-570-979 and C-570-980 to determine whether Chinese-origin solar cell components completed in Ethiopia-or further assembled into modules in Vietnam-evade duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China. The inquiry was requested by a coalition of U.S. domestic producers including First Solar, Hanwha Q CELLS USA, and Silfab...