{"id":9103,"date":"2012-03-20T03:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/jinkosolar-eyes-backup-plans-amid-us-trade-dispute\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T03:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:27","slug":"jinkosolar-eyes-backup-plans-amid-us-trade-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/jinkosolar-eyes-backup-plans-amid-us-trade-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"JinkoSolar eyes backup plans amid US trade dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Options include modules from Ontario site<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Could set up manufacturing in United States<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SAN JOSE, Calif. March 19<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s JinkoSolar<br \/>\nHolding Co, one of the fastest-growing solar<br \/>\nmanufacturers, has some options to fall back on if the United<br \/>\nStates comes down hard against Chinese companies on Tuesday in a<br \/>\ntrade dispute, a Jinko executive said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government is expected to throw its weight behind<br \/>\ndomestic solar panel producers in their battle against<br \/>\nlower-priced imports from China that they say threaten the<br \/>\nfuture of the industry in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re watching that very closely. We have a couple back-up<br \/>\nplans that we&#8217;re evaluating already,&#8221; Isabelle Christensen,<br \/>\ndirector of North American operations for JinkoSolar, said in an<br \/>\ninterview at trade show PV America West in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those options include selling modules from the company&#8217;s<br \/>\nOntario site instead, she said, while Jinko was also looking at<br \/>\npossibly setting up manufacturing sites in Mexico or somewhere<br \/>\nin the United States, such as New Mexico or Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Commerce Department will announce preliminary<br \/>\ncountervailing or anti-subsidy duties on Tuesday, in response to<br \/>\n a complaint raised by a coalition of seven U.S. manufacturers,<br \/>\nwhich says Chinese panels are state-subsidized and &#8220;dumped&#8221; in<br \/>\nthe United States at unfairly low prices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christensen said she expected 2012 to be another challenging<br \/>\nyear for the industry as a whole, with panel prices coming down<br \/>\nfurther before stabilizing by the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from key U.S. markets such as California, Arizona, New<br \/>\nJersey and Colorado, she said Jinko was targeting China and<br \/>\nSouth Africa, as well as the Caribbean and Mexico &#8212; the latter<br \/>\ntwo markets because their electricity prices are high enough to<br \/>\ndrive solar adoption without government support.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Options include modules from Ontario site * Could set up manufacturing in United States SAN JOSE, Calif. March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s JinkoSolar Holding Co, one of the fastest-growing solar manufacturers, has some options to fall back on if the United States comes down hard against Chinese companies on Tuesday in a trade dispute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}