China eliminates import tax on solar equipment

odyd12

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Saturday, March 30th 2013, 12:01pm

China eliminates import tax on solar equipment

This is a quote of what has been added to duty-free catalog:
Crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing automatic
printing, drying, sintering, testing sorting system silicon (polycrystalline
and single crystal) Dimensions: 156mm × 156mm

Solar grade monocrystalline furnaces, polycrystalline ingot
furnace single crystal furnace feeding amount ≥ 150KG; once polycrystalline
ingot furnace feeding amount ≥ 800KG

Diffusion furnace silicon (polycrystalline and single
crystal) Dimensions: 156mm × 156mm

Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells
selenide, heat-treated substrate size 0.6 × 1.2m; maximum temperature ≥ 500
degrees silicon rods multi-wire cutting silicon wafer diameter 200-300mm more
details, please refer to the " on the adjustment of major technological
equipment import tax policies directory notify "
http://www.ne21.com/news/show-40194.html

Help to update legacy equipment with less costs, which in return to keep more capacity around?
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explo

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Saturday, March 30th 2013, 12:46pm

That is very interesting news. I wasn't aware of those duties. I wonder what level they're at?

This is puzzling. If they want to put a poly tariff to protect its adolescent poly industry, the exact same thing is happening in manufacturing equipment. Just as GCL and some others started to compete with the poly incumbents, so has domestic equipment makers done with the U.S. and EU equipment incumbents.

Many of the big equipment buyers like GCL, YGE and SOL have already founded strong domestic partnerships to allow a high quality per capex ratio. Why are China bailing GTAT, AMAT, Centrotherm, Roth&Rau, Burger Meyers and others out? Are they treating U.S. and EU equally here?

Clearly China is prioritizing their goods producers over their manufacturing equipment makers here.

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Thursday, April 4th 2013, 3:36am

An article in pv-mag has quoted a senior analyst at IHS as saying this is more of a "concession" China is offering up to help settle the trade dispute...maybe this was the first real step towards that positive outcome...

Positive signal

With this new development, "China is sending a positive signal to Europe and is showing that it doesn’t want the trade cases conflict to escalate," Stefan de Haan, PV senior analyst at IHS Solar told pv magazine. However, at the same time, it is also "asking the West not to be too harsh with their anti-dumping measures," he added.
Last month, Chinese Commerce minister Chen Deming called on Europe to "properly handle the solar panel friction with China to avoid greater losses for both sides."

Read more: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/…/#ixzz2PUPFkSUo