Last week, from many countries of the solar industry trade association meetings in Shanghai and issued a joint statement calling on China, the EU and the U.S. to avoid a trade war, a negotiated solution to solar panels disputes. These groups also called for establishing a similar intergovernmental Semiconductor Conference (GAMS), permanent inter-governmental committee to solve the solar competition. 

The appeal was issued on the occasion, a time when the EU and the United States and China on the problems caused by china solar panel tariff increasing trade relations. Last year, the United States began to impose tariffs. Recently, the EU has decided to impose solar panels made in China, an average of 47% of the provisional duty. 

Many U.S. companies in favor of finding a solution through negotiations, despite their divergent interests. To Chinese solar panel manufacturers to sell equipment and silicon companies worry about a trade war would adversely affect, but the installation of photovoltaic inverter U.S. companies have benefited from low-priced imports. 

U.S. and European solar panel manufacturer claims that Chinese solar panel manufacturer from China to benefit government subsidies and dumping prices below cost products. Chinese solar panel manufacturers have been an oversupply in the highly competitive global market but struggling. Suntech, 2011 was the world's largest distributor of solar panels, has been forced into bankruptcy, corporate reorganization plan being negotiated.