PVTIME – On 17 September 2026, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal announced that it had terminated the second expiry review of its 2021 order regarding the dumping and subsidising of photovoltaic modules and laminates from China. The Tribunal also rescinded the related anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders.
The Canada Border Services Agency ceased collecting the duties the following day. Previously, Chinese exporters had been subject to anti-dumping duties of up to 154.4%, as well as a countervailing duty of 0.340 yuan per watt. With these orders now withdrawn and the most-favoured-nation rate for these products already set at zero, the tariff burden on Chinese solar exports to Canada has also fallen to zero.
These measures were first imposed in 2015 and had remained largely unchanged for over a decade. Canada’s domestic solar manufacturing base has contracted significantly in recent years, with local producers such as Heliene ceasing production of comparable products by late 2022. Over 95% of the country’s off-grid solar modules are imported.
