The latest step in an increasingly acrimonious battle engulfing the global clean-energy industry came a day after the United States made a final decision to impose duties on billions of dollars of solar products from China over the next five years, to shield American producers against lower-priced imports.
It also came after the Chinese government said Monday that it had filed a case with the World Trade Organization accusing some E.U. countries of violating free trade rules with policies that favored the purchase of solar energy equipment produced in Europe.
The European Commission is already investigating whether Chinese manufacturers sold equipment for less than the cost of making it. That so-called anti-dumping investigation is the biggest case of its kind in terms of value, covering imports from China worth an estimated €21 billion, or $27 billion.
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