Commerce seeks more information on anonymous solar petitioners

The Commerce Department is requesting more information about a group of anonymous petitioners pushing the agency to launch inquiries into solar product manufacturers in Southeast Asia, which the companies say are evading longstanding trade remedy measures against China. An industry group calling itself the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (“A-SMACC”) in August requested that Commerce launch anti-circumvention inquiries into imports of certain solar products from companies in Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand it says are evading AD/CVD orders on China...