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EU tariffs on Chinese solar goods could cost UK 3.5bn

2013-02-20 05:38:03| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Imposing additional trade duties on Chinese solar products could cost the UK economy up to 3.5bn and 38,600 jobs, a new industry-backed report has warned. The country would be the hardest hit if the EU goes ahead with threatened anti-dumping or countervailing levies designed to block cheap imported solar panels from China, according to a paper published by a group of 160 companies called the Alliance for Affordable Solar Energy (AFASE). Brussels has opened two investigations into Chinese solar...

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