{"id":925,"date":"2013-06-05T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=925"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:52:30","slug":"ec-to-impose-solar-duties-of-11-8-on-chinese-solar-products-from-6-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"EC to impose solar duties of 11.8% on Chinese solar products from 6 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2013\/06\/chinesflag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" alt=\"chinesflag\" src=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2013\/06\/chinesflag.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>European trade commissioner, Karel de Gucht, has announced that the European Commission will impose solar duties on Chinese-manufactured solar products. As of 6 June 2013, a tariff rate of 11.8% will be introduced. On 6 August 2013, the rate will return to the levels originally proposed by the EC with an average of 46.7%. The two month reprieve at 11% is meant to allow the industry time to adjust and recover from the higher tariffs to come later in the summer. On average this will add around \u00a320 per PV panel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarpowerportal.co.uk\/news\/ec_to_impose_solar_duties_of_11.8_on_chinese_solar_products_from_6_june_235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European trade commissioner, Karel de Gucht, has announced that the European Commission will impose solar duties on Chinese-manufactured solar products. As of 6 June 2013, a tariff rate of 11.8% will be introduced. On 6 August 2013, the rate will return to the levels originally proposed by the EC with an average of 46.7%. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=925\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EC to impose solar duties of 11.8% on Chinese solar products from 6 June<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-solar-pv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}