Solarworld Wins EU Extension of China Duties to Malaysia, Taiwan

Solarworld AG won a bid to have European Union tariffs on Chinese solar panels extended to Malaysia and Taiwan after the EU found that China’s exporters used the two other countries to evade the levies.

The European Commission, the 28-nation EU’s trade authority in Brussels, said Chinese exporters of solar panels shipped them via Malaysia and Taiwan to dodge EU duties meant to counter imports that were allegedly subsidized and sold below cost -- a practice known as “dumping.”