US calls for duty on Indian wind energy equipment manufacturers

The International Trade Ad­ministration (ITA), under the United States department of co­mmerce, has recommended levying a countervailing duty against wind energy equipment manufacturers from India. The recent steps are a stark reminder of the Obama era battle in the World Trade Organization (WTO) between India and the United States to protect the latter’s local renewable energy industry.

With the Joe Biden-led Dem­ocrats now in office, the US clean energy lobby appears to be back in action.

A notice by the department of commerce said, “The dep­artment of commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of utility scale wind towers from India. The period of investigation is April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020.”