The anti dumping commission of Australia is nearing its decision on whether or not to levy punitive tariffs on the solar panels manufactured by the Chinese. Last year, the Prime Minister of Australia has announced her promise to a new anti dumping commission as well as more funding, especially to investigate dumping objections. In fact, it is a move which has been appreciated by several people in the struggling manufacturing sector of Australia. The pressure on the Australian Government has increased to protect the manufacturers against suspected dumping as the high dollar of Australia has lowered the prices of imported goods.

The anti dumping commission which is regarded as Australia’s new Policeman ensures that the Australian manufacturers do not face any sort of unjust competition from dumped, cheap imports. However, the history has revealed out that anti dumping laws and systems are just less about level playing field or fair trade and more about protecting the local businesses from foreign competition. A complaint has been filed by Tindo Solar in May 2014 and following that the domestic manufacturers of Australia have claimed that unfair pricing from the Chinese Firms has been harming the industry. The US, EU and Canada have imposed duties in the past 2 years.

It is declared that preliminary decision will be notified on April 7 whereas the final recommendation to the parliamentary secretary will be on May 19. The decision will be announced following within 30 days. In the latest submission to this investigation, Tindo insisted the elimination of ReneSola from the Euro Price responsibility stating that it was troubled at the predacious attitude of the company for dominating the market. Tindo also requested a rise in the dumping margin which is applied to the manufacturer.

The China Chamber of Commerce for Export and Import of Machinery and Electronic products that represent the Chinese manufacturers has been claiming that the investigators have been failing to prove that the China Government is influencing affordable PV prices. In a declaration in the month of February, CCCME has revealed that the anti dumping commission acknowledges that there is inadequate evidence for supporting the claim that costs of the PV modules or panels in the domestic Chinese market were powered by the Government of China.

In the mean while, JA solar has called for panels that facilitates power ratings more than 300W to be excused of any duties, however, no domestic supplier is producing modules more than 260W. Tindo has been criticized and one installer stated in the investigation that they do not accept that Tindo is a genuine manufacturer. Even the critical components of the solar modules, the crucial solar cell, glas, frame and back sheet are imported into the country by Tindo. The installer also added that the Tindo is simply engaged in doing some assemble and soldering. Furthermore, the installer also said that they have been struggling to understand how over fifty percent of the cost of manufacturing is brought upon in Australia by an automatic assembly and soldering line. Besides, he also said that the application by Tindo will be dismissed only on this basis alone.