The preliminary finding comes as part of a Commerce Department inquiry into alleged unfair trade practices that has upended the solar industry for most of the year.

Three-quarters of solar companies responding to a Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) survey reportedly said that panel deliveries have been cancelled or delayed in the days since the U.S. Commerce Department said in late March that it was opening a circumvention case against imports of solar goods from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. SEIA said in a press release that

The U.S. Department of Commerce will open an investigation into whether Chinese solar-equipment manufacturers are evading tariffs by sending components to other Asian nations for assembly before shipping finished products to the U.S.

The company at the heart of a high-profile complaint that is sending shockwaves through the solar energy industry alleges that solar cells and module imports are surging ahead of a key Commerce Department decision. In its filing, lawyers for Auxin Solar told Commerce Department officials that “an enormous volume” of imported CSPV cells and modules is “surging into the United

The U.S. Department of Commerce gave itself another 15 days to wrap up an initial review of a bid by a domestic solar manufacturer seeking tariffs to be imposed on module imports from four Asian countries. In a one-page statement dated March 10, Commerce said it needed more time to review and assess what it described as “novel and complex”