Taiwanese manufacturers hold conservative attitudes toward shipments after Chinese Lunar New Year due to the US-China trade war and the end of fiscal year in Japan. However, according to EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, major Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers still maintain regular shipment while some of them even accelerate shipments to the US and Japan. Thus, sales revenue can still be high in February. It’s projected that the US-China trade war’s impact on Taiwanese manufacutrers won’t begin to show until March.
ITC today announced that Taiwanese and Chinese PV products exported to the U.S. have caused substantial damages to the U.S. PV industry. Henceforth, DOC will take over the following administrative processes and announce the anti-subsidy and anti-dumping tariffs by the end of March and mid-June, respectively.