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Solar-panel tariffs risk trade fray, China says

By JOE McDONALD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: October 12, 2012 at 1:47 a.m.

Credit: Bloomberg
 An employee at Suntech Power Holdings Co.’s factory in Wuxi, China, assembles photovoltaic cells. Chinese solar-panel manufacturers are protesting stiff tariffs the U.S. Commerce Department upheld Wednesday.

China demanded Thursday that Washington repeal steep tariffs on solar panels that Chinese producers fear will shut their equipment out of the American market.

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