Tag: tariffs

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……

December 5, 2022
240 solar companies call for rejection of anti-circumvention petition

With the Inflation Reduction Act celebrations over, the solar industry is back to focusing on the anti-circumvention trade case. The deadline is approaching for a decision from the Department of Commerce, and more than 240 solar and storage companies are imploring Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject the petition for new anti-circumvention tariffs on solar products….…

November 17, 2022
The United States Trade Representative is getting rid of the bifacial solar module tariff exclusion again

Feel like I’ve written this headline 100 times already. Anyway, the U.S. Trade Representative called for removing Section 201 tariff exclusions for bifacial solar modules, again. Not much more to say about it other than it should have been expected. Here’s the obligatory sad trombone response from Solar Energy Industries AssociationRead More — Solar Builder magazine

April 16, 2020
Court upholds the bifacial solar module tariff exclusion

The U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) will allow the exclusion from Section 201 tariffs for bifacial modules to remain in place for the foreseeable future. In early October, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) attempted to revoke the exclusion, a decision which SEIA and several solar companiesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

December 5, 2019
Trump’s solar tariff disaster: 62,000 jobs and $19 billion in investments lost

Tariffs on imported solar cells and modules have led to the loss of more than 62,000 U.S. jobs and $19 billion in new private sector investment, according to a market impact analysis released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The analysis comes as the midterm review process forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

December 3, 2019