Top Solar Firm Longi Says U.S Customs Detained Products
- Seized shipments has no major impact on operations, Longi says
- Biden administration put ban on Chinese solar products in June
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China’s Longi Green Energy Technology Co., the world’s largest solar-panel maker, is the latest in the industry to have shipments detained by U.S. customs as part of a crackdown by Washington over alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
Longi had 40.31 megawatts of modules detained from Oct. 28 through Nov. 3, representing 1.6% of its annual exports to the U.S., the company said in a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Longi said it established a product tracing mechanism last year, and is able to prove that the detained modules used silicon material that meets U.S. government requirements. The detention has no major impact on Longi’s current operations, according to the statement.