China Hits Turkish Market With Solar Panel Exports

In 2016, three domestic producers lodged a complaint to the Ministry of Economy concerning the imports of photovoltaic (solar) panels and modules ("solar panels") originating in the People's Republic of China ("China"). Following the complaint of domestic producers, the Ministry of Economy published its notice^[1] of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding to establish the existence of dumping and dumping margin, the existence and extent of damage to Turkey's domestic industry and finally the causal relationship between the dumped imports and the alleged injury.

In the meanwhile, the European Commission closed its review in order to keep the measures in force or remove the measures altogether in the market for solar panels and solar cells originating or consigned from China. In this regard, the Commission decided to extend the anti-dumping measures against China^[2], yet limit the prolongation of the measures to 18 months^[3].