Toyo Co. says a new anti-circumvention petition targeting its Ethiopian solar cell facility is “riddled with misinformation.” The Japanese manufacturer tells pv magazine that the site reached 4 GW of capacity last year and that it is planning a U.S. onshore cell plant.
May 18, 2026
Toyo Co. is pushing back on allegations that it is circumventing US solar duties via Ethiopia, with Chief Strategy Officer Rhone Resch calling a newly filed petition misleading and inaccurate.
Resch said a petition filed earlier this month by the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade (AASMT) against Toyo Solar Manufacturing's Ethiopian operations “fundamentally mischaracterizes our operations and business model and is riddled with misinformation.” He added that the company plans to “vigorously clarify these facts through the appropriate official channels.”
The AASMT petition was filed by eight US solar manufacturers – DYCM Power, First Solar, Great Lakes Solex PR, Hanwha Q CELLS USA, Silfab Solar, Suniva, Swift Solar, and Talon PV – and alleges that Toyo and Origin Solar Manufacturing are completing Chinese-origin wafers into solar cells in Ethiopia before exporting finished products to the United States to circumvent existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders. AASMT did not immediately respond to a request for further comment. Origin Solar Manufacturing did not respond to a request for comment.
