Tag: tariffs

  • Solar tariff circumvention final decision explained

    The U.S. Department of Commerce issued its long-awaited final decision in the Auxin Solar tariff case with a finding of circumvention. The final decision largely resembles the preliminary decision, with a determination that: “certain Chinese producers are shipping their solar products through Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and/or Vietnam for minor processing in an attempt to avoid……

  • Solar tariff moratorium remains as House fails veto override attempt

    The U.S. House of Representatives came up short in its attempt to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a resolution to eliminate his two-year tariff moratorium on imported solar panels. The House voted 214-205 on Wednesday, 76 shy of the 290 needed for the two-thirds majority required to override Biden’s veto of H.J. Res. 39……

  • Biden vetoes CRA legislation to repeal tariff moratorium

    President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to remove his two-year moratorium on tariffs for imported solar panels. The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 39) was drafted by the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee, which invoked the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the tariff pause on solar panels made in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand……

  • ‘Very strong likelihood’ CRA legislation will pass House and Senate

    Solar experts believe that an effort to undo the two-year moratorium on tariffs that President Joe Biden established in June 2022 is likely to pass both chambers of Congress. Invoking the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee approved new legislation to repeal the moratorium by a vote of……

  • Commerce calls for new tariffs in AD/CVD circumvention decision but with notable exceptions

    The preliminary decision is in, and the U.S. Department of Commerce is issuing a determination of circumvention in Auxin’s antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) case regarding solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. But there are several companies with operations in these companies that received findings of “not circumventing,” and……