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DUESSELDORF German solar company SolarWorld saw very good business in the United States so far in the fourth quarter, Chief Executive Frank Asbeck told Reuters on Wednesday. Asbeck also added that a strategic partnership was one of many options for the group, which had posted a 300 million euro ($ 389.97 million) net loss for the first nine months of 2012. (Reporting by Anneli Palmen; Writing by Christoph Steitz)

U.S. solar panel producers, who have already won preliminary duties on billions of dollars of solar panel imports from China, appear well positioned to win longer-term relief in coming weeks as the U.S. government makes its final decisions. The high-profile case, which has been copied by producers in Europe and spawned threats of retaliation from Beijing, now largely turns on whether the U.S. International Trade Commission finds U.S. manufacturers have been “materially injured,” or are threatened with material injury, by the imports. “We feel we have a very strong injury case,” Tim Brightbill, lead attorney for SolarWorld Americas and other [...]