The European Association of Cheap Solar Energy said at a press conference held at the EU headquarters in Brussels on February 19th that it would oppose the EU's punitive tariffs on Chinese PV products; if 60% of punitive tariffs are imposed, it will lead to more than 240,000 EU people in three years. unemployment. 18...
The European Association of Cheap Solar Energy said at a press conference held at the EU headquarters in Brussels on February 19 that it opposed the EU's punitive tariffs on Chinese PV products; if a punitive tariff of 60% is imposed, it will cause more than 240,000 people in the EU to be unemployed within three years. .

184 European PV companies jointly opposed

Torsten Proigschas is the executive president of a German photovoltaic products company, Sowetex, and a spokesperson for the European Pacific Solar Alliance. He told this reporter: "If the EU is against China The punitive tariffs imposed by PV companies will cause the EU's 242,000 people to lose their jobs. It is a stupid decision to break the industrial chain of the entire European solar industry for the temporary 'compensation'."

In order to stop this "stupid decision", Sowetex began to establish the European Fair Solar Alliance in conjunction with other 183 European PV companies since last summer. Entrusted by the alliance, the Institute of Forecasting, an independent economic research institute based in Basel, Switzerland, published a report on February 18, entitled "Anti-dumping measures against Chinese solar modules, solar cells and solar wafers" The huge impact of European employment and the added value loss. The report consists of 7 pages and contains 6 charts. The data analysis shows that if the EU imposes a 20% punitive tariff on Chinese PV products, the EU will lose 115,600 jobs in the first year after taxation. The company will lose an added value of 4.74 billion euros. In the first three years of taxation, it will lose 175,500 jobs and lose an additional value of 18.4 billion euros. If the punitive tariffs increase to 60%, then within three years, the EU will lose 242,000 jobs and lose the added value of 27.2 billion euros.

Nearly 200 European companies may face bankruptcy

Oliver Ellentraut, senior project director in charge of drafting the report, told this reporter that if the EU imposes punitive tariffs, the result is obviously an "economic and employment loss account". The facts are clear and well documented. "In this international anti-dumping case involving many EU countries and China, they must restore the true statistics as much as possible and objectively estimate the huge losses that the anti-dumping case will bring to all parties concerned." He also said that In the case, not only Chinese companies but also nearly 200 European companies were unable to maintain their operations and face bankruptcy.

Forecasting Institute is an authoritative research organization with a history of more than 50 years. Oliver Ellentrat told this reporter that the biggest feature of the institute is that it has been adhering to the principle of neutrality and objectivity and conducting research. "We have many data analysis experts who provide trade framework advice to international organizations. Indicators and action recommendations with reference values."

On the day before the press conference, representatives from more than 60 PV companies from the European countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece and other countries participated in the European Commission's special hearing on this issue. Rory Markley of a European consulting company told this reporter that at the hearing, each company took its own situation as an example and explained to the European Commission officials that "there is no rule that China's photovoltaic products 'double opposition' will be established. Reasons for imposing punitive tariffs.

Toma Barros-Tasde, the news liaison officer responsible for convening the press conference, told reporters that European companies’ joint opposition to the EU’s taxation of Chinese PV products will surely persist in the end if the EU continues to stubbornly impose The decision to punish a tariff is "just like lifting a rock to lick your own feet."

11-year-old children are unable to accept punishment for Chinese enterprises

Some representatives of European companies took the initiative to tell reporters that they have had good cooperation with many Chinese PV companies for many years. Once the EU has established and taxed China's PV products, the European companies will also suffer huge losses.

Torsten Proigsas also said that even if a punitive tariff is imposed, even 11-year-old children can't accept it. Before his departure, the 11-year-old daughter said: "To promote the use of clean energy around the world, there are clearly available and affordable solar products, but they refuse to use them. This will bring irreparable damage to our living environment. Loss. I really don't understand why there are such stupid decisions as punitive tariffs?"

On September 6 and November 8, last year, the EU launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on Chinese PV products, involving Chinese companies exporting up to 21 billion euros to the EU, known as the double-counter in the history of the EU. "case. The case has now entered the legal investigation process, and the European Commission will rule on this case around June this year. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce of China once said that the Ministry of Commerce attaches great importance to the case and will continue to pay close attention to the investigation and ruling of the case and reserve the right to take further measures under the WTO framework.

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