Germany led a majority of EU members yesterday to oppose punitive duties on imported Chinese solar panels, undermining an aggressive attempt by the bloc’s trade commissioner to combat allegedly unfair competition from China.
Karel De Gucht is confronting Beijing in the EU’s biggest ever trade investigation. But Philipp Rösler, Germany’s economy minister, made clear his government’s opposition to duties at a lunch in Berlin for Li Keqiang, the visiting Chinese premier.
Mr De Gucht, a Belgian, has recommended provisional punitive tariffs averaging 47 per cent be imposed on imports from Chinese solar producers, who he accuses of selling below cost.
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