[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26786-26791]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11588]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-555-003, A-557-830, A-549-851, A-552-841]
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled
Into Modules From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Amended Final
Antidumping Duty Determination; Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells,
Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules From Cambodia, Malaysia,
Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty
Orders
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) orders on
crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into
modules (solar cells) from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). In addition, Commerce is
amending its final determination of sales at less than fair value
(LTFV) with respect to solar cells from Vietnam to correct ministerial
errors.
DATES: Applicable June 24, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Cohen (Vietnam), Office III;
telephone: (202) 482-4521; Hermes Panilla (Cambodia), Office I;
telephone: (202) 482-3477; Stephen Bailey (Thailand), Office IV;
telephone: (202) 482-0193; and Patrick Barton (Malaysia), Office III;
telephone: (202) 482-0012; AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on April 25, 2025, Commerce published its
affirmative final determinations in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigations of solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and
Vietnam.\1\
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\1\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled Into Modules, from Cambodia: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90 FR 17392 (April
25, 2025) (Cambodia Final Determination); Crystalline Silicon
Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from
Malaysia: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, 90 FR 17376 (April 25, 2025) (Malaysia Final Determination);
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled
Into Modules, from Thailand: Final Affirmative Determination of
Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value and Final Affirmative Determination of
Critical Circumstances, 90 FR 17395 (April 25, 2025) (Thailand Final
Determination); and Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether
or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances,
in Part, 90 FR 17388 (April 25, 2025) (Vietnam Final Determination)
(collectively, LTFV Final Determinations).
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On June 9, 2025, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative
determinations, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, that an industry
in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of LTFV imports of solar
cells from Malaysia and Vietnam, and that an industry in the United
States is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of such
merchandise from Cambodia and Thailand that are sold in the United
States at LTFV.\2\ Further, the ITC determined that critical
circumstances do not exist with respect to LTFV imports of solar cells
from Vietnam.\3\
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\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated June 9, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter).
\3\ See ITC's Letter, ``Chair Determinations Letter to
{Commerce{time} --crystalline photovoltaic cells, whether or not
assembled into modules,'' dated June 9, 2025 (ITC Notification
Letter). Having made a determination that an industry in the United
States is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of
solar cells from Thailand, the ITC did not reach the issue of
critical circumstances regarding imports of subject merchandise from
Thailand. See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled Into Modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and
Vietnam, Investigation Nos. 701-TA-722-725 and 731-TA-1690-1693
(Final), USITC Pub. 5631 (June 2025) (ITC Final Report).
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In the LTFV investigation of solar cells from Vietnam, the
petitioners and a respondent timely alleged that Commerce made certain
ministerial errors.\4\ See ``Amendment to the Vietnam Final
Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value'' section below for
further discussion.
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\4\ See JA Solar's Letter, ``Ministerial Error Comments,'' dated
May 5, 2025 (JA Solar's ME Comments); Boviet's Letter, ``Ministerial
Error Comments,'' dated May 5, 2025 (Boviet's ME Comments), and
Petitioner's Letter, ``Ministerial Error Allegations for the Final
Determination,'' dated May 5, 2025 (Petitioner's ME Comments).
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders is solar cells from Cambodia,
Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. For a complete description of the
scope of the orders, see the appendix to this notice.
Amendment to the Final Determination of Sales at LTFV for Vietnam
We determine that we made certain ministerial errors in the sales
at LTFV final determination of solar cells from Vietnam. Pursuant to 19
CFR 351.224(e), and as explained further in the Vietnam Ministerial
Error Memorandum, Commerce is amending the Vietnam Final LTFV
Determination to reflect the correction of certain ministerial
errors.\5\ Correction of these errors changes the final AD cash deposit
rate for JA Solar Vietnam Co. Ltd. (JA Solar), and Jinko Solar
(Vietnam) Industries Company Limited (Jinko), as well as the cash
deposit rate for all other producers and exporters not individually
investigated. The revised rates are listed in the ``Estimated Weighted-
Average Dumping Margins'' section, below.
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error Allegations
in the Final Determination,'' dated May 19, 2025 (Vietnam
Ministerial Error Memorandum).
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Antidumping Duty Orders
Based on the above-referenced affirmative final determinations by
the ITC that an industry in the United States is materially injured by
reason of LTFV imports of solar cells from Malaysia and Vietnam, and
that an industry in the United States is threatened with material
injury by reason of imports of such merchandise from Cambodia and
Thailand,\6\ and, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the
Act, Commerce is issuing these antidumping duty orders. Because the ITC
determined that an industry in the United States is materially injured
by reason of imports of solar cells from Vietnam and Malaysia, and that
an industry in the United States is threatened with material injury by
reason of imports of solar cells from Thailand and Cambodia,
unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Cambodia, Malaysia,
Thailand, and Vietnam, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping duties.
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\6\ See ITC Notification Letter; see also ITC Report.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act,
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise on all
relevant entries of solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and
Vietnam. With the exception of entries occurring after expiration of
the provisional measures period, but before publication of the ITC's
final affirmative injury determination, as further described below, for
all relevant entries of solar cells from Malaysia and Vietnam,
antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of solar
cells entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after
December 4, 2024, the date of publication of the LTFV Preliminary
Determinations.\7\
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\7\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled Into Modules, from Cambodia: Affirmative Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of
Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR
96226 (December 4, 2024); Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells,
Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from Malaysia: Affirmative
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional
Measures, 89 FR 96207 (December 4, 2024); Crystalline Silicon
Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from
Thailand: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-
Than-Fair-Value, Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 89 FR 96214 (December 4, 2024); and
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled
Into Modules from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in
Part, and Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 89 FR 96219 (December 4, 2024) (Vietnam
Preliminary Determination) (collectively, LTFV Preliminary
Determinations).
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Pursuant to section 736(b)(2) of the Act, duties shall be assessed
on subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the date of publication of the ITC's notice of
final determination if that determination is based on the threat of
material injury and is not accompanied by a finding that injury would
have resulted without the imposition of suspension of liquidation of
entries since Commerce's preliminary determination.
Additionally, section 736(b)(2) of the Act requires CBP to refund
any cash deposits or bonds of estimated antidumping duties posted since
the preliminary antidumping determination if the ITC's final
determination is threat-based.
Because the ITC's final determination for Cambodia and Thailand is
based on the threat of material injury and is not accompanied by a
finding that injury would have resulted but for the imposition of
suspension of liquidation of entries since the Cambodia and Thailand
Preliminary Determinations, section 736(b)(2) of the Act is
applicable.\8\ Therefore, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess duties
on entries
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of solar cells from Cambodia and Thailand entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the
ITC's notice of final determination of threat of material injury in the
Federal Register, in accordance with the dumping margins listed in the
rate charts below for Cambodia and Thailand.
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\8\ See ITC Notification Letter.
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Critical Circumstances
With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances
determination on imports of solar cells from Vietnam, we will instruct
CBP to lift the suspension of liquidation and to refund all cash
deposits for estimated antidumping duties with respect to entries of
the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after September 5, 2024, i.e., 90 days prior to the
date of the publication of the Vietnam Preliminary Determination, but
before December 4, 2024, the date of publication of the Vietnam
Preliminary Determination.
Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this
notice Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to suspend
liquidation on all relevant entries of solar cells from Cambodia,
Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, in accordance with section 736 of the
Act. These instructions suspending liquidations will remain in effect
until further notice.
Commerce will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to
the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in the tables
below, adjusted by the relevant export subsidy offsets. Accordingly,
effective on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the
notice of the ITC's affirmative final injury determination, CBP must
require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated
customs duties on subject merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
weighted-average dumping margins listed in the tables below. The all-
others rate applies to all producers or exporters not specifically
listed, as appropriate.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins, as published in
Commerce's Final Determinations, are as follows:
Cambodia
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Producer/exporter dumping margin subsidy offsets)
(percent) (percent)
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Hounen Solar Inc. Co. Ltd....... * 125.37 117.18
Solar Long PV Tech Cambodia Co.. * 125.37 117.18
All Others...................... 125.37 117.18
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* Rates based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Malaysia
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Producer/exporter dumping margin subsidy offsets)
(percent) (percent)
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Hanwha Q Cells Malaysia Sdn. Bhd 0.00 0.00
Jinko Solar Technology Sdn. Bhd. 8.59 1.92
Baojia New Energy Manufacturing * 81.24 81.24
Sdn............................
CRC Solar Cell Joint Stock * 81.24 81.24
Company........................
Lynter Enterprise............... * 81.24 81.24
Mega PP Sdn. Bhd................ * 81.24 81.24
All Others...................... 8.59 1.92
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* Rates based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Thailand
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Producer/exporter dumping margin subsidy offsets)
(percent) (percent)
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Trina Solar Science & Technology 111.45 111.45
(Thailand) Ltd.................
Sunshine Electrical Energy...... * 202.90 172.68
Taihua New Energy (Thailand) Co. * 202.90 172.68
Ltd............................
All Others...................... 111.45 111.45
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* Rates based on facts available with adverse inferences.
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Vietnam
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Weighted- Cash deposit
average rate (adjusted
Producer Exporter dumping for subsidy
margin offsets)
(percent) (percent)
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JA Solar Vietnam Co. Ltd./JA Solar PV.......... JA Solar Vietnam Co. Ltd.......... 62.31 56.78
Jinko Solar (Vietnam) Industries Company Jinko Solar (Vietnam) Industries 126.18 120.65
Limited. Company Limited.
Blue Moon Vina Co.............................. Blue Moon Vina Co................. 85.45 79.92
Boviet Solar Technology Co., Ltd............... Boviet Solar Technology Co., Ltd.. 85.45 79.92
Elite Solar Technology (Vietnam) Company Elite SNG......................... 85.45 79.92
Limited.
Letsolar Vietnam Company Limited............... Letsolar Vietnam Company Limited.. 85.45 79.92
Mecen Solar Vina Co., Ltd...................... Mecen Solar Vina Co., Ltd......... 85.45 79.92
Nexuns Vietnam Company Limited................. Nexuns Vietnam Company Limited.... 85.45 79.92
Trina Solar Energy Development Company Ltd..... Trina Solar Energy Development 85.45 79.92
Company Ltd.
Vietnergy Co., Ltd. and Tainergy Tech Co., Ltd. Vietnergy Co., Ltd. and Tainergy 85.45 79.92
Tech Co., Ltd.
Vietnam Sunergy Joint Stock Company (f.k.a. Vietnam Sunergy Joint Stock 85.45 79.92
Vietnam Sunergy Company Limited). Company (f.k.a. Vietnam Sunergy
Company Limited).
Vietnam-Wide Entity............................ .................................. * 271.28 271.28
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months.
At the request of exporters that accounted for a significant proportion
of exports of solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and
Vietnam, Commerce extended the four-month period to no more than six
months.\9\
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\9\ See LTFV Preliminary Determinations.
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Commerce published the LTFV Preliminary Determinations on December
4, 2024; therefore, the six-month provisional measures period beginning
on the date of the publication of the LTFV Preliminary Determinations
ended on June 1, 2025. Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1)
of the Act and our practice,\10\ Commerce will instruct CBP to
terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without
regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of solar cells from
Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after June 2, 2025, the first day
provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the
day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determination in the Federal Register.
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\10\ See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from
India, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and
Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48392
(July 25, 2016).
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Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in
the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\11\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published
the Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\12\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for
circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request
on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as
well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same
country of origin.
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\11\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September
20, 2021) (Final Rule).
\12\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in
the Federal Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at https://access.trade.gov, within five business days of publication of the
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type
called ``AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \13\
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\13\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL--January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\14\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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\14\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR 53206.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact
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information. Any changes or announcements pertaining to these
procedures will be posted to the ACCESS website at https://access.trade.gov.
Special Instructions for the Petitioner and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \15\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and foreign governments should submit their
initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in order
to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for these orders.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and foreign
governments will not need to resubmit their entries of appearance each
year to continue to be included on the annual inquiry service list.
However, the petitioner and foreign governments are responsible for
making amendments to their entries of appearance during the annual
update to the annual inquiry service list in accordance with the
procedures described above.
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\15\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD orders with respect to solar cells
from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, pursuant to section
736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can find a list of AD and CVD
orders currently in effect at https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
The amended final determination for Vietnam and these antidumping
duty orders are published in accordance with sections 735(e) and 736(a)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e) and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: June 17, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by the orders is crystalline silicon
photovoltaic cells, and modules, laminates, and panels, consisting
of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not partially
or fully assembled into other products, including, but not limited
to, modules, laminates, panels and building integrated materials.
The orders cover crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells of
thickness equal to or greater than 20 micrometers, having a p/n
junction formed by any means, whether or not the cell has undergone
other processing, including, but not limited to, cleaning, etching,
coating, and/or addition of materials (including, but not limited
to, metallization and conductor patterns) to collect and forward the
electricity that is generated by the cell.
Merchandise under consideration may be described at the time of
importation as parts for final finished products that are assembled
after importation, including, but not limited to, modules,
laminates, panels, building-integrated modules, building-integrated
panels, or other finished goods kits. Such parts that otherwise meet
the definition of merchandise under consideration are included in
the scope of the orders.
Excluded from the scope of the orders are thin film photovoltaic
products produced from amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride
(CdTe), or copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS).
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are crystalline
silicon photovoltaic cells, not exceeding 10,000 mm\2\ in surface
area, that are permanently integrated into a consumer good whose
function is other than power generation and that consumes the
electricity generated by the integrated crystalline silicon
photovoltaic cell. Where more than one cell is permanently
integrated into a consumer good, the surface area for purposes of
this exclusion shall be the total combined surface area of all cells
that are integrated into the consumer good.
Additionally, excluded from the scope of the orders are panels
with surface area from 3,450 mm\2\ to 33,782 mm\2\ with one black
wire and one red wire (each of type 22 AWG or 24 AWG not more than
206 mm in length when measured from panel extrusion), and not
exceeding 2.9 volts, 1.1 amps, and 3.19 watts. For the purposes of
this exclusion, no panel shall contain an internal battery or
external computer peripheral ports.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are:
1. Off grid CSPV panels in rigid form with a glass cover, with
the following characteristics: (A) a total power output of 100 watts
or less per panel; (B) a maximum surface area of 8,000 cm\2\ per
panel; (C) do not include a built-in inverter; (D) must include a
permanently connected wire that terminates in either an 8 mm male
barrel connector, or a two-port rectangular connector with two pins
in square housings of different colors; (E) must include visible
parallel grid collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters
across each solar cell; and (F) must be in individual retail
packaging (for purposes of this provision, retail packaging
typically includes graphics, the product name, its description and/
or features, and foam for transport); and
2. Off grid CSPV panels without a glass cover, with the
following characteristics: (A) a total power output of 100 watts or
less per panel; (B) a maximum surface area of 8,000 cm2 per panel;
(C) do not include a built-in inverter; (D) must include visible
parallel grid collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters
across each solar cell; and (E) each panel is (1) permanently
integrated into a consumer good; (2) encased in a laminated material
without stitching, or (3) has all of the following characteristics:
(i) the panel is encased in sewn fabric with visible stitching, (ii)
includes a mesh zippered storage pocket, and (iii) includes a
permanently attached wire that terminates in a female USB-A
connector.
In addition, the following CSPV panels are excluded from the
scope of the orders: off-grid CSPV panels in rigid form with a glass
cover, with each of the following physical characteristics, whether
or not assembled into a fully completed off-grid hydropanel whose
function is conversion of water vapor into liquid water: (A) a total
power output of no more than 80 watts per panel; (B) a surface area
of less than 5,000 square centimeters (cm\2\) per panel; (C) do not
include a built-in inverter; (D) do not have a frame around the
edges of the panel; (E) include a clear glass back panel; and (F)
must include a permanently connected wire that terminates in a
twoport rectangular connector.
Additionally excluded from the scope of these orders are off-
grid small portable crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels, with or
without a glass cover, with the following characteristics: (1) a
total power output of 200 watts or less per panel; (2) a maximum
surface area of 16,000 cm\2\ per panel; (3) no built-in inverter;
(4) an integrated handle or a handle attached to the package for
ease of carry; (5) one or more integrated kickstands for easy
installation or angle adjustment; and (6) a wire of not less than 3
meters either permanently connected or attached to the package that
terminates in an 8 mm diameter male barrel connector.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are off-grid
crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels in rigid form with a glass
cover, with each of the following physical characteristics, whether
or not assembled into a fully completed off-grid hydropanel whose
function is conversion of water vapor into liquid water: (A) a total
power output of no more than 180 watts per panel at 155 degrees
Celsius; (B) a surface area of less than 16,000 square centimeters
(cm2) per panel; (C) include a keep-out area of approximately 1,200
cm2 around the edges of the panel that does not contain solar cells;
(D) do not include a built-in inverter; (E) do not have a frame
around the edges of the panel; (F) include a clear glass back panel;
(G) must include a permanently connected wire that terminates in a
two-port rounded rectangular, sealed connector; (H) include a
thermistor installed into the permanently connected wire before the
twoport connector; and (I) include exposed positive and negative
terminals at opposite ends of the panel, not enclosed in a junction
box.
Further excluded from the scope of the orders are:
Off grid rigid CSPV panels with a glass cover, with the
following characteristics: (A) a total power output of 200 watts or
less per panel, (B) a maximum surface area of 10,500 cm\2\ per
panel, (C) do not include a built-in inverter, (D) must include a
permanently connected wire that terminates in waterproof connector
with a cylindrical positive electrode and a rectangular negative
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electrode with the positive and negative electrodes having an
interlocking structure, (E) must include visible parallel grid
collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters across each
solar cell, and (F) must be in individual retail packaging (for
purposes of this provision, retail packaging typically includes
graphics, the product name, its description and/or features); and
Off-grid small portable crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels,
with or without a glass cover, with the following characteristics:
(A) a total power output of 200 watts or less per panel, (B) a
maximum surface area of 16,000 cm\2\ per panel, (C) no built-in
inverter, (D) an integrated handle or a handle attached to the
package for ease of carry, (E) one or more integrated kickstands for
easy installation or angle adjustment, and (F) a wire either
permanently connected or attached to the package terminates in
waterproof connector with a cylindrical positive electrode and a
rectangular negative electrode with the positive and negative
electrodes having an interlocking structure.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are:
Off grid rigid CSPV panels with a glass cover, with the
following characteristics: (A) a total power output of 200 watts or
less per panel, (B) a maximum surface area of 10,500 cm\2\ per
panel, (C) do not include a built-in inverter, (D) must include a
permanently connected wire that terminates in waterproof connector
with a cylindrical positive electrode and a rectangular negative
electrode with the positive and negative electrodes having an
interlocking structure, (E) must include visible parallel grid
collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters across each
solar cell, and (F) must be in individual retail packaging (for
purposes of this provision, retail packaging typically includes
graphics, the product name, its description and/or features); and
Small off-grid panels with glass cover, with the following
characteristics: (A) surface area from 3,450 mm2 to 33,782 mm2, (B)
with one black wire and one red wire (each of type 22AWG or 28 AWG
not more than 350 mm in length when measured from panel extrusion),
(C) not exceeding 10 volts, (D) not exceeding 1.1 amps, (E) not
exceeding 6 watts, and (F) for the purposes of this exclusion, no
panel shall contain an internal battery or external computer
peripheral ports.
Additionally excluded from the scope of the orders are:
Off grid rigid CSPV panels with a glass cover, with the
following characteristics: (A) a total power output of 175 watts or
less per panel, (B) a maximum surface area of 9,000 cm\2\ per panel,
(C) do not include a built-in inverter, (D) must include a
permanently connected wire that terminates in waterproof connector
with a cylindrical positive electrode and a rectangular negative
electrode with the positive and negative electrodes having an
interlocking structure; (E) must include visible parallel grid
collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters across each
solar cell, and (F) must be in individual retail packaging (for
purposes of this provision, retail packaging typically includes
graphics, the product name, its description and/or features); and
Off grid CSPV panels without a glass cover, with the following
characteristics, (A) a total power output of 220 watts or less per
panel, (B) a maximum surface area of 16,000 cm\2\ per panel, (C) do
not include a built-in inverter, (D) must include visible parallel
grid collector metallic wire lines every 1-4 millimeters across each
solar cell, and (E) each panel is encased in a laminated material
without stitching.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are off-grid CSPV
panels in rigid form, with or without a glass cover, permanently
attached to an aluminum extrusion that is an integral component of
an automation device that controls natural light, whether or not
assembled into a fully completed automation device that controls
natural light, with the following characteristics:
1. a total power output of 20 watts or less per panel;
2. a maximum surface area of 1,000 cm\2\ per panel;
3. does not include a built-in inverter for powering third party
devices
Modules, laminates, and panels produced in a third-country from
cells produced in a subject country are covered by the orders;
however, modules, laminates, and panels produced in a subject
country from cells produced in a third-country are not covered by
the orders.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are all products
covered by the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty
orders on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Amended
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 73018 (December 7, 2012); and
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled
into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Countervailing
Duty Order, 77 FR 73017 (December 7, 2012).
Merchandise covered by the orders is currently classified in the
Harmonized Tariff System of the United States (HTSUS) under
subheadings 8541.42.0010 and 8541.43.0010. Imports of the subject
merchandise may enter under HTSUS subheadings 8501.71.0000,
8501.72.1000, 8501.72.2000, 8501.72.3000, 8501.72.9000,
8501.80.1000, 8501.80.2000, 8501.80.3000, 8501.80.9000,
8507.20.8010, 8507.20.8031, 8507.20.8041, 8507.20.8061, and
8507.20.8091. These HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience
and customs purposes; the written description of the scope of the
orders is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2025-11588 Filed 6-23-25; 8:45 am]
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