Commerce Rejects A-SMACC Solar Panel Circumvention Petition

On November 10, 2011 the U.S. Department of Commerce rejected the circumvention petition filed by an anonymous group of domestic solar manufacturers known as American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention, or "A-SMACC."  Commerce cited the group's anonymity as a driving factor in the denial.

On August 16, 2021, A-SMACC asked the Department of Commerce to initiate a circumvention inquiry on imports of solar products produced in Chinese-owned factories in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.  A-SMACC argued that imports of solar panels/modules produced in Chinese-owned factories in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, with Chinese wafers and other Chinese components, should be subject to the current antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese cells/modules.  A number of parties filed comments urging Commerce to deny A-SMACC's request on the ground that initiation would have dramatic economic impact on the nascent U.S. solar industry, disrupt imports,