Notice2025-13955
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products, Whether or Not Assembled into Modules, From Taiwan: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews, and Revocation of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part
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Published
July 24, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is issuing the final results of changed circumstances review (CCR) of the antidumping duty (AD) order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products, whether or not assembled into modules (solar products), from Taiwan to revoke the order, in part, with respect to certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 140 (Thursday, July 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34840-34842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13955]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-583-853]
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products, Whether or Not
Assembled into Modules, From Taiwan: Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Reviews, and Revocation of the Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is issuing the
final results of changed circumstances review (CCR) of the antidumping
duty (AD) order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products, whether
or not assembled into modules (solar products), from Taiwan to revoke
the order, in part, with respect to certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic (CSPV) cells.
DATES: Applicable July 24, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyler O'Daniel, Office of Policy,
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-6030.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 18, 2015, Commerce published in the Federal Register
the antidumping duty order on solar products from Taiwan.\1\ On August
28, 2024, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. (Lutron), a domestic producer,
importer and exporter of subject merchandise, requested that Commerce
conduct a changed circumstances review (CCR) to find that it is
appropriate to revoke the Order, in part, with respect to certain
small, low-wattage, off-grid (CSPV) cells pursuant to section 751(b)(1)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
351.216(b).\2\ On October 21, 2024, Commerce published the notice of
initiation of the requested CCR.\3\ In the Initiation Notice, Commerce
invited interested parties to provide comments and/or factual
information regarding the CCR, including comments on industry support
and the proposed partial revocation language.\4\ We received no
comments or factual information.
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\1\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Order, 80 FR 8596 (February 18, 2015)
(Order).
\2\ See Lutron's Letter, ``Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s
Request for Changed Circumstances Reviews and Request to Combine
Initiation and Preliminary Results,'' dated August 28, 2024 (CCR
Request).
\3\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products, Whether or
Not Assembled into Modules, from the People's Republic of Taiwan:
Notice of Initiation of Changed Circumstances Review, and
Consideration of Revocation of the Antidumping Order in Part, 89 FR
84118 (October 21, 2024) (Initiation Notice).
\4\ Id., 89 FR at 84118.
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On April 23, 2025, Commerce preliminarily found that producers
accounting for substantially all of the domestic production of the
products to which the Order pertains lack interest in the relief
provided by the Order with respect to CSPV cells, and announced its
intention to revoke, in part, the Order with respect to these
products.\5\ Commerce provided interested parties with the opportunity
to comment and request a public hearing regarding the Preliminary
Results. Commerce did not receive any comments or a request for a
hearing from interested parties. As a result, the Preliminary Results
are hereby adopted as the final results of this CCR and no decision
memoranda accompany this notice.
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\5\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled Into Modules, From Taiwan: Preliminary Results of Changed
Circumstances Reviews, and Intent To Revoke the Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part, 90 FR 17048 (April 23, 2025)
(Preliminary Results).
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation of the
Order, in Part
In light of Lutron's request, and domestic interested parties' lack
of interest in maintaining the Order with respect to the products under
consideration, Commerce continues to find, pursuant to sections
751(d)(1) and 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g), that changed
circumstances exist that warrant revocation of the Order, in part. No
interested party opposed this partial revocation. Moreover, no parties
provided other information or evidence that calls into question the
partial revocation described in the Preliminary Results. Specifically,
because producers accounting for substantially all the production of
the domestic like product to which the Order pertains have not
expressed interest in maintaining the relief provided by the Order with
respect to CSPV cells, as described below, Commerce is revoking the
Order, in part, with respect to CSPV cells with the following physical
characteristics:
Also excluded from the scope of this Order are off-grid CSPV
panels in rigid form, with or without a glass cover, permanently
attached to an aluminum extrusion that is an integral component of
an automation device that controls natural light, whether or not
assembled into a fully completed automation
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device that controls natural light, with the following
characteristics:
1. A total power output of 20 watts or less per panel;
2. A maximum surface area of 1,000 cm2 per panel;
3. Does not include a built-in inverter for powering third party
devices.\6\
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\6\ See CCR Request at Exhibit 1.
The scope description below includes this new exclusion.
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is crystalline silicon
photovoltaic cells, and modules, laminates, and/or panels, consisting
of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not partially or
fully assembled into other products, including building integrated
materials.
Subject merchandise includes crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells
of thickness equal to or greater than 20 micrometers, having a p/n
junction formed by any means, whether or not the cell has undergone
other processing, including, but not limited to, cleaning, etching,
coating, and/or addition of materials (including, but not limited to,
metallization and conductor patterns) to collect and forward the
electricity that is generated by the cell.
Modules, laminates, and panels produced in a third-country from
cells produced in Taiwan are covered by the Order. However, modules,
laminates, and panels produced in Taiwan from cells produced in a
third-country are not covered by the Order.
Excluded from the scope of the Order are thin film photovoltaic
products produced from amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride
(CdTe), or copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS).
Also excluded from the scope of the Order are crystalline silicon
photovoltaic cells, not exceeding 10,000mm2 in surface area, that are
permanently integrated into a consumer good whose function is other
than power generation and that consumes the electricity generated by
the integrated crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Where more than
one cell is permanently integrated into a consumer good, the surface
area for purposes of this exclusion shall be the total combined surface
area of all cells that are integrated into the consumer good.
Further, also excluded from the scope of the Order are any products
covered by the existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on
crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into
modules, from the People's Republic of China (China).\7\
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\7\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not
Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Amended
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 73018 (December 7, 2012); see also
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled
Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Countervailing
Duty Order, 77 FR 73017 (December 7, 2012).
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Also excluded from the scope of the Order are modules, laminates,
and panels produced in China from crystalline silicon photovoltaic
cells produced in Taiwan that are covered by an existing proceeding on
such modules, laminates, and panels from China.
Additionally, excluded from the scope of the Order are solar panels
that are: (1) less than 300,000mm2 in surface area; (2) less than 27.1
watts in power; (3) coated across their entire surface with a
polyurethane doming resin; and (4) joined to a battery charging and
maintaining unit (which is an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) box
that incorporates a light emitting diode (LED) by coated wires that
include a connector to permit the incorporation of an extension cable.
The battery charging and maintaining unit utilizes high-frequency
triangular pulse waveforms designed to maintain and extend the life of
batteries through the reduction of lead sulfate crystals. The above-
described battery charging and maintaining unit is currently available
under the registered trademark ``SolarPulse.''
Also excluded from the scope of this Order are off-grid CSPV panels
in rigid form, with or without a glass cover, permanently attached to
an aluminum extrusion that is an integral component of an automation
device that controls natural light, whether or not assembled into a
fully completed automation device that controls natural light, with the
following characteristics: (1) A total power output of 20 watts or less
per panel; (2) A maximum surface area of 1,000 cm2 per panel; (3) Does
not include a built-in inverter for powering third party devices.
Merchandise covered by the Order is currently classified in the
Harmonized Tariff System of the United States (HTSUS) under subheadings
8501.61.0000, 8507.20.8030, 8507.20.8040, 8507.20.8060, 8507.20.8090,
8541.40.6020, 8541.40.6030, and 8501.31.8000. These HTSUS subheadings
are provided for convenience and customs purposes; the written
description of the scope of the Order is dispositive.\8\
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\8\ See Order.
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Application of the Final Results of the CCR
Lutron requested that Commerce apply the final results of this
review to ``all unliquidated entries of the merchandise covered by the
revocation that are not covered by the final results of an
administrative review or automatic liquidation instruction.'' \9\
Section 751(d)(3) of the Act provides that Commerce determines the date
of application of the revocation of an order.\10\ In the Preliminary
Results, we stated our intent that ``the partial revocation will be
retroactively applied to unliquidated entries of merchandise subject to
the CCR that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption,
on or after the day following the last day of the period covered by the
most recently completed administrative reviews of the Order, and which
are not covered by automatic liquidation,'' and invited comments.\11\
As explained above, we received no comments opposing the intended
retroactive application of the partial revocation. Therefore, Commerce
is applying the partial revocation to unliquidated entries of
merchandise subject to the CCRs that were entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption, on or after February 1, 2021.
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\9\ See CCR Request at 13.
\10\ See section 751(d)(3) of the Act (stating that a
``determination under this section to revoke an order or finding or
terminate a suspended investigation shall apply with respect to
unliquidated entries of the subject merchandise which are entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date
determined by the administering authority'').
\11\ See Preliminary Results.
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Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Because we determine that there are changed circumstances that
warrant the revocation of the Order, in part, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate without regard to antidumping and countervailing duties, and
to refund any estimated antidumping and countervailing duties deposited
on all unliquidated entries of the merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 1, 2021, that are
covered by this partial revocation of the Order.
Commerce intends to issue instructions to CBP no earlier than 35
days after the date of publication of the final result of this CCR in
the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of
International Trade, the instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate
relevant entries until the time for parties to file a request for a
statutory
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injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of publication).
Administrative Protective Order
This notice serves as a final reminder to parties subject to an
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
an APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion
to a judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing the final results of the CCR in
accordance with sections 751(b) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.216, 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3), and 19 CFR 351.222(g).
Dated: July 18, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-13955 Filed 7-23-25; 8:45 am]
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