Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews, and Revocation of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-979, C-570-980]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews, and Revocation of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is issuing the final results of changed circumstances reviews (CCRs) of the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells, whether or not assembled into modules (solar cells), from the People's Republic of China (China) to revoke the orders, in part, with respect to certain off-grid CSPV panels. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 19, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Maureen Shaheen, Acting Director, Office of Antidumping Policy, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3004. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On December 7, 2012, Commerce published the <E T="03">Orders</E> on solar cells from China. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On September 30, 2025, Commerce published the initiation and preliminary results of these CCRs, finding that revocation, in part, of the <E T="03">Orders,</E> with respect to certain off-grid CSPV panels was warranted, pursuant to section 751(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.216(b). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> We also stated our intent to apply the partial revocation to unliquidated entries of merchandise subject to the CCRs that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after January 1, 2024, for the <E T="03">CVD Order,</E> and December 1, 2024, for the <E T="03">AD Order,</E> and provided interested parties with the opportunity to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On November 4 and 13, 2025, we received comments on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> from Nextpower LLC, formerly known as Nextracker LLC (Nextpower), and the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing (the petitioner), respectively. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 77 FR 73018 (December 7, 2012) ( <E T="03">AD Order</E> ); <E T="03">see also Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order,</E> 77 FR 73017 (December 7, 2012) ( <E T="03">CVD Order</E> ) (collectively, <E T="03">Orders</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews and Intent to Revoke the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part,</E> 90 FR 46795 (September 30, 2025) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">Id.,</E> 90 FR at 46797. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Nextpower's Letter, “Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Case Brief for Changed Circumstances Review,” dated November 4, 2025; and Petitioner's Letter,” Changed Circumstances Review Request of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Case Brief,” dated November 13, 2025. </FTNT> Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by 47 days. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Additionally, due to a backlog of documents that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an additional 21 days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for these final results is now January 21, 2026. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal Government,” dated November 14, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of All Case Deadlines,” dated November 24, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the case briefs filed by parties in this CCR are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum  <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> and listed in the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of CCRs and Revocation of the Orders, in Part</HD> In light of Nextpower's request, and the domestic interested parties' lack of interest in maintaining the <E T="03">Orders</E> with respect to the products under consideration, Commerce continues to find, pursuant to sections 751(d)(1) and 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g), that changed circumstances exist that warrant revocation of the <E T="03">Orders,</E> in part. No interested party opposed this partial revocation. Moreover, no parties provided other information or evidence that calls into question the partial revocation described in the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> Specifically, because producers accounting for substantially all the production of the domestic like product to which the <E T="03">Orders</E> pertain have not expressed interest in maintaining the relief provided by the <E T="03">Orders</E> with respect to certain off-grid CSPV panels, as described below, Commerce is revoking the <E T="03">Orders,</E> in part, with respect to certain off-grid CSPV panels with the following physical characteristics: Also excluded from the scope of these <E T="03">Orders</E> are off-grid CSPV panels for dedicated powering of a single low-voltage device (60Vdc or less) that: (A) Have a glass cover; (B) Have an aluminum frame around the edges of each panel; (C) Have a total power output of 140 watts or less per panel; (D) Are of an elongated rectangular shape such that the long side is at least 3.5 times the length of the short side; (E) Have a surface area of less than 8,200 cm2 per panel; (F) Connect to device with 12-16 American Wire Gauge wires between 1200 mm and 1310 mm in length; and (G) Do not include a built-in inverter. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Nextpower's Letter, “Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Request for Changed Circumstances Review,” dated June 27, 2025, at 6. </FTNT> The scope description below includes this new exclusion. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD> The merchandise covered by these <E T="03">Orders</E> is crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, and modules, laminates, and panels, consisting of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not partially or fully assembled into other products, including, but not limited to, modules, laminates, panels and building integrated materials. These <E T="03">Orders</E> covers crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells of thickness equal to or greater than 20 micrometers, having a p/n junction formed by any means, whether or not the cell has undergone other processing, including, but not limited to, cleaning, etching, coating, and/or addition of materials (including, but not limited to, metallization and conductor patterns) to collect and forward the electricity that is generated by the cell. Merchandise under consideration may be described at the time of importation as parts for final finished products that are assembled after importation, including, but not limited to, modules, laminates, panels, building-integrated modules, building-integrated panels, or other finished goods kits. Such parts that otherwise meet the definition of merchandise under consideration are included in the scope of these <E T="03">Orders.</E> Modules, laminates, and panels produced in a third-country from cells produced in China are covered by these <E T="03">Orders;</E> however, modules, laminates, and panels produced in China from cells produced in a third-country are not covered by these <E T="03">Orders.</E> Excluded from the scope of these <E T="03">Orders</E> are thin film photovoltaic products produced from amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe), or copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). Also excluded from the scope of these <E T="03">Orders</E> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 21k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━