| September 6, 2012: The European Commission announced an anti-dumping probe into photovoltaic products imported from China.
September 25, 2012: EU ProSun, a joint initiative of EU solar businesses, filed a second complaint to the European Commission, accusing Chinese photovoltaic manufacturers of receiving illegal subsidies from the Chinese Government and requiring a punitive import tariff on Chinese photovoltaic products.
November 8, 2012: The EU officially began an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese-made solar products.
March 6, 2013: The EU began to register photovoltaic products imported from China.
May 22, 2013: The CCCME announced that it would submit a negotiation plan to the European Commission, which immediately rebuffed it. Then, the first round of talks on price undertaking collapsed.
May 24, 2013: A total of 17 EU members opposed the plan to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on solar imports from China.
June 4, 2013: The European Commission declared the levying of a provisional anti-dumping duty of 11.8 percent on imports of solar panels, cells and wafers from China, from June 6 to August 6, when the duty would be raised to 47.6 percent if a compromise was not reached between the two parties.
July 27, 2013: The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) published a joint statement with other Chinese industry players announcing an agreement over China's solar panel exports to the EU.
(Compiled by Beijing Review) | 
