US EditionUS sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on South East Asia solar panels
- The US plans to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from certain Southeast Asian countries to conclude a trade case alleging unfair pricing by Chinese manufacturers.
- The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee accused big Chinese solar panel makers of shipping panels priced below production costs, which harms US manufacturers.
- The US International Trade Commission is set to vote in June on whether Chinese imports have harmed the US solar manufacturing industry, which is valued at over $10 billion.
- Critics, including the Solar Energy Industries Association, warn that these tariffs may raise prices and negatively impact US solar producers.
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CPA Applauds Commerce Department’s Final Determinations Confirming China’s Rampant Trade Violations in Solar Imports from Southeast Asia - Coalition For A Prosperous America
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) strongly supports the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final affirmative determinations in its antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations into solar cells and modules imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Department’s decision confirms what CPA has consistently warned: Chinese solar companies have been illegally circumventing U.S. trade laws th…
Two solar module manufacturers in Cambodia threaten US tariffs of 3500 percent. In Vietnam, a popular production site of Nike and Apple, there is chaos due to Trump's customs hacks. Xi Jinping tries to exploit this. But governments hesitate – and have good reason to do so.
Trump administration announces plan to hike solar tariffs for 4 countries
The Commerce Department this week announced plans to hike tariffs on solar panels from East Asia, alleging that panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are receiving Chinese subsidies. Panels from Cambodia received the highest tariffs — as solar panels from that country would see duties at a rate of 652 percent on average — though some Cambodian companies could see tariffs hiked as high as 3,500 percent. Vietnamese and Thai panels w…
The Commerce Department Slaps High Tariffs on Solar Imports from Four Southeast Asian Countries Acting on Behalf of China
U.S. trade officials finalized steep tariff levels on most solar cells from Southeast Asia. U.S. solar manufacturers claim that Chinese companies were undercutting prices and receiving unfair subsidies through factories in Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, which allowed them to avoid tariffs on past imports from China. The United States has had various tariffs in place on Chinese solar panels since the Obama Administration. The American…
In the ongoing tariff war, the US is now focusing its attention on cheaply produced solar cells from countries in Southeast Asia, which Chinese companies have flooded the market with. Products made in Cambodia risk tariffs of 3,500 percent.
US imposes tariffs up to 3500 per cent on solar panels
US trade officials have unveiled plans to impose tariffs of up to 3500 per cent on solar panels from some South-East Asian countries.It marks a key step towards wrapping up a year-old trade case in which American manufacturers accused Chinese companies of flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods, CNN reports.The case was brought last year by Korea's Hanwha Qcells, Arizona-based First Solar Inc and several smaller producers seeking to prote…
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