The New Delhi government might introduce anti-dumping duty on solar cell-importers including China and U.S., according to the Indian media.

One of the leading Indian business newspaper, Economic Times, Wednesday said that New Delhi might impose anti-dumping duty on U.S. China, Malaysia, Taiwan and other major importers of solar cells as Indian local producers last year filed a case alleging that these countries were  exporting solar equipment to India at "ridiculously low prices," which was "bleeding the local industry". 

If convinced India is planning to impose the duty after listening to the grievances of its local manufactures this month. 
 
"It is a complex case with over 100 companies involved. An initial hearing is scheduled for July 18 to understand the case better. We will start the investigations once the preliminary hearing is over," said an Indian official in the commerce ministry, according to the Economic Times.

"There's sufficient prima facie evidence of 'injury' being suffered by the domestic industry caused by dumped imports from the subject countries to justify initiation of an anti-dumping investigation," said the case filed by the local producers last November.


"There's an over capacity of solar cells globally due to over production by countries like China, which are also dumping at prices below our cost of production," Indosolar Ltd Managing Director HR Gupta, told the news paper.

With cheap imports flooding the European mark, EU has recently introduced provisional anti-dumping duty on Chinese solar imports.