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Brinser said for an industry that has seen 50 percent drop in panel prices over the past year, the preliminary ruling is just part of the remedy. And his company feels that between now and later this year when a final determination is made, Chinese panels will be taxed at an even higher rate. By then we’ll start to see a “rebuilding of American solar manufacturing.” And it’s when, he said, the market will emerge as free of intervention, and with a renewed focus on innovation that will be stimulated by the growing manufacturing base.

But many of the leading Chinese manufacturers are adamant that they haven’t been dumping their products and they are publicly confident that the final numbers will in fact be lower than what we saw Thursday.

For an industry desperately seeking clarity, the notion that the issue is not really resolved underscores the bitter divide that’s been drawn and the enormous scale of what’s at stake.

The preliminary rulings for both the lower countervailing duties (CVD) and the much steeper anti-dumping duties will go through further Department of Commerce (DOC) scrutiny, and Chinese manufacturers are sure to make the case that the numbers are higher than they ought to be, while SolarWorld will argue they are still too low. The rate at which tariffs are initially set often differs from the final determination, so there is still a lot of push and pull to be had.

According to Vishal Shah of Deutsche Bank, this process is currently unfolding for the CVD case with the DOC investigating glass subsidies and potentially excessive rebates of value added tax.

The issue has dominated the solar landscape from American rooftops to Chinese production lines. And it’s been watched intently across boardrooms in Europe and even in growing markets like India, whose domestic solar manufacturers are also having trouble competing on price in an industry increasingly dominated by China.

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