Today, the Biden administration announced "new actions to strengthen American solar manufacturing and protect businesses and workers from China’s unfair trade actions," including several measures to ratchet up trade remedies on solar products.

The European Commission announced today that in response to investigations under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), two consortia that include Chinese solar companies had withdrawn their bid for a Romanian procurement contract.

In an opinion issued last Thursday, a U.S. Court of International Trade judge rejected the U.S. government's motion to dismiss a complaint brought by two U.S. solar producers related to a two year pause on duties imposed on solar products from four Southeast Asian countries

With one U.S. investment already in place, a major Chinese solar manufacturing executive made comments recently indicating that the Chinese industry may have to expand these investments in order to sell in the U.S. market.

Earlier this week, a group of U.S. solar manufacturers filed AD/CVD petitions against products made by mostly Chinese-owned solar companies operating in four Southeast Asian countries. The Commerce Department's new rules that allow it to examine "transnational" subsidies – i.e., subsidies provided by a

In official notices published yesterday, the European Commission has provided additional details on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation investigation it is undertaking in relation to a public procurement contract for a Romanian government solar project, based on Chinese subsidies to some of the companies involved.

Today, the European Commission announced two subsidies investigations of companies with ties to China, related to bids on a Romanian government solar project.