Japan has asked India to immediately review its safeguard duties on solar cell imports to ensure that products that have different characteristics from solar cells are excluded from the levy.
The request was made at a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) committee on safeguards earlier this week, a Geneva-based official told BusinessLine . “India said it would like to discuss the issue bilaterally with Japan,” the official said.
In July last year, India imposed a 25 per cent safeguard duty on imports of solar cells and modules from China and Malaysia for the first year. The duty is to be scaled down to 20 per cent on such imports for the first six months of the second year and 15 per cent for the remaining half of the year.
