Notice2023-04854
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review, and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022
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March 9, 2023
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Abstract
This notice contains the preliminary results of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products (solar products) from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the period of review (POR) February 1, 2021, through January 31, 2022. Commerce preliminarily finds that the sole mandatory respondent under review sold subject merchandise at prices below normal value (NV) during the POR, that two companies under review had no entries, exports, or sales of solar products during the POR, and that it is appropriate to rescind this review with respect to 54 companies/ company groupings because all requests to review these companies/ company groupings were timely withdrawn. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 46 (Thursday, March 9, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14602-14605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04854]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-010]
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From the
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Antidumping Administrative
Review, and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: This notice contains the preliminary results of the U.S.
Department of Commerce's (Commerce) administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic
products (solar products) from the People's Republic of China (China)
covering the period of review (POR) February 1, 2021, through January
31, 2022. Commerce preliminarily finds that the sole mandatory
respondent under review sold subject merchandise at prices below normal
value (NV) during the POR, that two companies under review had no
entries, exports, or sales of solar products during the POR, and that
it is appropriate to rescind this review with respect to 54 companies/
company groupings because all requests to review these companies/
company groupings were timely withdrawn. Interested parties are invited
to comment on these preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable March 9, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Krisha Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office
IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-4037.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 12, 2022, in response to a request from the American
Alliance for Solar Manufacturing (the petitioner), Commerce initiated
an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on solar
products from China \1\ with respect to 62 companies/company
groupings.\2\ Subsequently, the petitioner timely withdrew its review
request with respect to 54 companies/company groupings.\3\ On September
30, 2022, Commerce extended the deadline for issuing the preliminary
results of this review by 120 days, to February 28, 2023.\4\
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\1\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order; and Amended
Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Countervailing Duty Order, 80 FR 8592 (February 18, 2015) (Order).
\2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 21619 (April 12, 2022) (Initiation
Notice). Sixty-three company or company groupings are listed in the
Initiation Notice. However, the list includes the name ``Trina Solar
Co., Ltd.,'' and the name of this company before the POR began,
Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd. Because both names refer to
the same company, we actually initiated the administrative review
with respect to only 62 companies or company groupings.
\3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic
Products from the People's Republic of China: Partial Withdrawal of
Request for Administrative Review,'' dated July 11, 2022 (Partial
Withdrawal).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic
Products from the People's Republic of China: Extension of Deadline
for the Preliminary Results of the 2021-2022 Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review,'' dated September 30, 2022.
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For details regarding the events that occurred subsequent to
initiation of the review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\5\ A
list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included as Appendix I to this notice. The Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via
Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to
registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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\5\ See Memorandum ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From the People's Republic
of China; 2021-2022,'' issued concurrently with, and hereby adopted
by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the Order are solar products from China.\6\
Merchandise covered by the Order is
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currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTSUS) under subheadings 8501710000, 8501721000, 8501722000,
8501723000, 8501729000, 8501801000, 8501802000, 8501803000, 8501809000,
8507208031, 8507208041, 8507208061, 8507208091, 8541420010, and
8541430010. These HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes; the written description of the scope of the Order is
dispositive.
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\6\ For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. Commerce revised certain HTSUS
subheadings listed in the scope of the Order based on a request, and
information obtained, from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
See Memorandum, ``Update to the ACE AD/CVD Case Reference File,''
dated concurrently with this notice.
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Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), because the petitioner timely
withdrew its review request with respect to 54 companies/company
groupings, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to those
companies which are named in Appendix II to this notice.
Preliminary Determination of No Shipments
Because we found no record evidence calling into question the no-
shipment claims of Hubei Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd. and Trina Solar
(Hefei) Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Commerce preliminarily
determines that these companies did not sell or export subject
merchandise to, nor was their subject merchandise entered into, the
United States during the POR. Consistent with Commerce's practice in
non-market economy (NME) administrative reviews,\7\ Commerce is not
rescinding its review of these two companies but intends to complete
this review and issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the
final results of the review.
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\7\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694, 65694-95 (October 24, 2011).
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Preliminary Affiliation and Single Entity Determination
Based on record evidence in this review, as well as Commerce's
single entity determination in the 2014-2016 administrative review in
this proceeding,\8\ Commerce preliminarily finds that the following
companies are affiliated, pursuant to section 771(33)(F) of the Tariff
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and that they should be treated as a
single entity, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.401(f)(1)-(2): Trina Solar
(Changzhou) Science & Technology Co., Ltd.; Trina Solar Co., Ltd.;
Yancheng Trina Guoneng Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. (a.k.a.
Yancheng Trina Solar Guoneng Science & Technology Co., Ltd.); Trina
Solar Yiwu Technology Co., Ltd.; Trina Solar (Su Qian) Technology Co.,
Ltd.; Trina Solar (Yancheng Dafeng) Co., Ltd.; Changzhou Trina Hezhong
Photoelectric Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Changzhou Trina Hezhong PV Co., Ltd.);
Changzhou Trina Solar Yabang Energy Co., Ltd.; and Turpan Trina Solar
Energy Co., Ltd. (collectively Trina). For additional information, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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\8\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2014-
2016; 82 FR 32170 (July 12, 2017), under the ``Final Results of
Review'' section.
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Separate Rates
Commerce preliminary determines that information placed on the
record by Trina demonstrates that it is entitled to separate rate
status. Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity,
the entity is not under review and the entity's cash deposit rate
(i.e., 152.84 percent \9\) is not subject to change.\10\ For additional
information regarding Commerce's preliminary separate rate
determination, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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\9\ The China-wide entity cash deposit rate has not changed
since the Order and has been the applicable rate for the entity in
each subsequent review, including the most recently completed
review. See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2014-
2016, and Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from the
People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2017-2018; Correction, 86 FR 18504 (April 9,
2021).
\10\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. We based Trina's dumping margin
on a comparison of constructed export prices, which we calculated in
accordance with section 772 of the Act, and NV, which we calculated in
accordance with section 773(c) of the Act because Commerce has
determined that China is an NME country,\11\ within the meaning of
section 771(18) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology
underlying the preliminary results of this review, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
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\11\ See Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Aluminum Foil
from the People's Republic of China: Affirmative Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value and Postponement of
Final Determination, 82 FR 50858, 50861 (November 2, 2017) (citing
Memorandum, ``China's Status as a Non-Market Economy,'' dated
October 26, 2017), unchanged in Certain Aluminum Foil from the
People's Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value, 83 FR 9282 (March 5, 2018).
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Preliminary Results of Review
We are assigning the following dumping margin to the firm listed
below for the period February 1, 2021, through January 31, 2022:
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Weighted-average
Exporter dumping margin
(percent)
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Trina Solar (Changzhou) Science & Technology Co., 16.79
Ltd./Trina Solar Co., Ltd./Yancheng Trina Guoneng
Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Yancheng
Trina Solar Guoneng Science & Technology Co.,
Ltd.)/Trina Solar Yiwu Technology Co., Ltd./Trina
Solar (Su Qian) Technology Co., Ltd./Trina Solar
(Yancheng Dafeng) Co., Ltd./Changzhou Trina
Hezhong Photoelectric Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Changzhou
Trina Hezhong PV Co., Ltd.)/Changzhou Trina Solar
Yabang Energy Co., Ltd./Turpan Trina Solar Energy
Co., Ltd..........................................
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose to parties to the proceeding the
calculations performed for these preliminary results of review under
administrative protective order within five days of the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register in accordance with
19 CFR 351.224(b).
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than
30 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results of
review in the Federal Register.\12\ Rebuttal briefs may be filed no
later than seven days after case briefs are due and may respond only to
arguments raised in the case briefs.\13\ A table of contents, list of
authorities used, and an executive
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summary of issues should accompany any briefs submitted to Commerce.
The summary should be limited to five pages total, including
footnotes.\14\
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\12\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
\13\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
\14\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
Requests for a hearing should contain: (1) the requesting party's name,
address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants and
whether any of those individuals is a foreign national; and (3) a list
of the issues the party intends to discuss at the hearing. Oral
arguments at the hearing will be limited to issues raised in the case
and rebuttal briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce will
announce the date and time of the hearing. Parties should confirm the
date and time of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing
date.
All submissions to Commerce, with limited exceptions, must be filed
electronically using ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be
received successfully in its entirety by Commerce's electronic records
system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.\15\ Note
that Commerce has temporarily modified certain of its requirements for
serving documents containing business proprietary information, until
further notice.\16\
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\15\ See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements);
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Electronic Filing
Procedures; Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 39263
(July 6, 2011).
\16\ See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements
Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July
10, 2020).
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, which will include the results
of its analysis of issues raised in any briefs, within 120 days of
publication of these preliminary results of review in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results of this review, Commerce will
determine, CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries of subject merchandise covered by this review.\17\ Commerce
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days
after date of publication of the final results of this review in the
Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of
International Trade, the assessment instructions will direct CBP not to
liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties to file a request
for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of
publication).
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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Commerce intends to calculate importer/customer-specific ad valorem
assessment rates by dividing the total amount of dumping calculated for
all reviewed U.S. sales to the importer or customer by the total
entered value of the merchandise sold to the importer/customer.\18\
Where the weighted-average dumping margin or an importer/customer-
specific ad valorem assessment rate is not zero or de minimis, Commerce
will instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of
liquidation. Where either Trina's ad valorem weighted-average dumping
margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer/customer-specific ad
valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\19\
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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1); see also Antidumping Proceedings:
Calculation of the Weighted Average Dumping Margin and Assessment
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR
8101 (February 14, 2012) (Final Modification).
\19\ See Final Modification, 77 FR at 8103.
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Pursuant to a refinement to Commerce's assessment practice,\20\
where sales of subject merchandise exported by an individually examined
respondent were not reported in the U.S. sales data submitted by the
respondent, but the merchandise was entered into the United States
during the POR, we will instruct CBP to liquidate any entries of such
merchandise at the assessment rate for antidumping duties for the
China-wide entity. Additionally, where Commerce determines that an
exporter under review had no shipments of subject merchandise during
the POR, any suspended entries of subject merchandise that entered
under that exporter's CBP case number during the POR will be liquidated
at the assessment rate for antidumping duties for the China-wide
entity.
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\20\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011), for a full
discussion of this practice.
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In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final
results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the review and
for future deposits of estimated antidumping duties, where applicable.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be in effect for all
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on, or after, the date of publication of the notice of
the final results of this administrative review in the Federal
Register, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the
cash deposit rate for Trina will be equal to the weighted-average
dumping margin calculated for Trina in the final results of this review
(except, if the rate is de minimis, then the cash deposit rate will be
zero); (2) for a previously investigated or reviewed exporter of
subject merchandise not listed in the final results of review that has
a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the
exporter's existing cash deposit rate; (3) for all China exporters of
subject merchandise that do not have a separate rate, the cash deposit
rate will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin assigned to
the China-wide entity, which is 154.84 percent; and (4) for a non-China
exporter of subject merchandise that does not have a separate rate, the
cash deposit rate will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin
applicable to the China exporter(s) that supplied that non-China
exporter. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain
in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during the POR. Failure to
comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption
that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties
occurred, and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties,
and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of
the countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.213 and 351.221(b)(4).
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Dated: February 28, 2023.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Review
IV. Scope of the Order
V. Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
VI. Preliminary Determination of No Shipments
VII. Single Entity Treatment
VIII. Discussion of the Methodology
IX. Currency Conversion
X. Recommendation
Appendix II
Companies/Company Groupings for Which the Administrative Review Is
Being Rescinded
1. Anji Dasol Solar Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
2. BYD (Shangluo) Industrial Co., Ltd.
3. Canadian Solar International Limited.
4. Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Changshu) Inc.
5. Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Luoyang) Inc.
6. Chint Energy (Haining) Co., Ltd.; Chint Solar (Hong Kong) Company
Limited; Chint Solar (Jiuquan) Co., Ltd.; Chint Solar (Zhejiang)
Co., Ltd.; Chint New Energy Technology (Haining) Co. Ltd.
7. CSI Cells Co., Ltd.
8. CSI Solar Power (China) Inc.
9. CSI-GCL Solar Manufacturing (Yancheng) Co., Ltd.
10. De-Tech Trading Limited HK.
11. Hefei JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd.
12. Hengdian Group DMEGC Magnetics Co. Ltd.
13. JA Solar Co., Ltd.
14. JA Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd.
15. Jiangsu Jinko Tiansheng Solar Co., Ltd.
16. Jiawei Solarchina (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
17. Jiawei Solarchina Co., Ltd.
18. JingAo Solar Co., Ltd.
19. Jinko Solar Co. Ltd.
20. Jinko Solar Import and Export Co., Ltd.
21. Jinko Solar International Limited.
22. JinkoSolar Technology (Haining) Co., Ltd.
23. Jiujiang Shengchao Xinye Technology Co., Ltd.
24. Jiujiang Shengzhao Xinye Trade Co., Ltd.
25. Lightway Green New Energy Co., Ltd.
26. Longi (HK) Trading Ltd.
27. Longi Solar Technology Co. Ltd.; Lerri Solar Technology Co.,
Ltd.
28. Luoyang Suntech Power Co., Ltd.
29. Ningbo ETDZ Holdings, Ltd.
30. Ningbo Qixin Solar Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.
31. Perlight Solar Co., Ltd.
32. Renesola Jiangsu Ltd.
33. ReneSola Zhejiang Ltd.
34. Risen (Luoyang) New Energy Co., Ltd.
35. Risen (Wuhai) New Energy Co., Ltd.
36. Risen Energy Co. Ltd.; Risen Energy (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
37. Ruichang Branch, Risen Energy (HongKong) Co., Ltd.
38. Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd.
39. Shenzhen Sungold Solar Co., Ltd.
40. Shenzhen Topray Solar Co., Ltd.
41. Shenzhen Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Baoding Jiasheng
PhotovoltaicTechnology Co., Ltd.; Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy
Resources Co., Ltd.; Beijing Tianneng Yingli New Energy Resources
Co., Ltd.; Hainan Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Hengshui
Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Lixian Yingli New Energy
Resources Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd.;
Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited.
42. Sumec Hardware & Tools Co., Ltd.
43. Sunny Apex Development Ltd.
44. Suntech Power Co., Ltd.
45. Taizhou BD Trade Co., Ltd.
46. tenKsolar (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
47. Wuxi Suntech Power Co., Ltd.
48. Wuxi Tianran Photovoltaic Co., Ltd.
49. Xiamen Yiyusheng Solar Co., Ltd.
50. Yingli Green Energy International Trading Company Limited.
51. Yuhuan Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
52. Zhejiang Aiko Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
53. Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
54. Zhejiang Twinsel Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
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