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China’s Ministry of Commerce is looking into a request to investigate polysilicon dumping by German manufacturers after the country’s biggest maker, Solarworld AG (SWV), pushed for a similar European Union probe.

 

Four Chinese solar companies, including New York-listed LDK Solar Co. (LDK), asked the government to start anti-dumping, anti- subsidy probes on polysilicon exported from the EU, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today, without saying where it got the information. The polysilicon, the raw material used for solar panels, mainly came from Germany and Italy to a lesser extent, with Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG (WCH) responsible for exporting the most, Xinhua said.