US imports of crystalline silicon solar cells and panels from China fell to their lowest level in at least two years even amid the peak, year-end selling season based on federal government data, the Coalition for Amercian Solar Manufacturing said.
US imports of c-Si cells and modules from China totaled US$50.5 million in November, down from $75 million in October, and less than one-fifth the $278 million from October 2011, according to the Census Bureau’s “US Imports of Merchandise” database, CASM reported.
Silicon PV cell and module imports from China are expected to be about one-third lower in 2012 than they were in 2011. Imports from China totalled about $1.7 billion through November this year, down from $2.4 billion in the year-ago period.
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