That has forced President Biden to make an uncomfortable choice: Continue welcoming inexpensive imports that are helping the United States transition away from fossil fuels, or block them to protect new U.S. solar factories that are benefiting from taxpayer money.
Those products should have been subject to additional tariffs, but the Biden administration made an unusual decision in June 2022 to temporarily pause them for two years, to ensure that the United States would still have access to plenty of solar panels.
Groups like the American Clean Power Association, which represents utility solar and energy storage companies, had argued that imposing the tariffs would harm U.S. efforts to combat climate change.
“But if we want to build a durable domestic supply chain that meets our climate goals, continues to create jobs and adds to our energy security, the Biden administration’s industrial policies will need to evolve further and be forceful.”
In the last two years, many have built up factories in Southeast Asia that may allow them to argue that they are doing substantial manufacturing there, not simply circumventing tariffs by routing goods through those countries, industry executives said.
In April, a group of American solar manufacturers filed another set of cases with the Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission, asking them to investigate unfair subsidies and pricing practices from factories in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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That has forced President Biden to make an uncomfortable choice: Continue welcoming inexpensive imports that are helping the United States transition away from fossil fuels, or block them to protect new U.S. solar factories that are benefiting from taxpayer money.
Those products should have been subject to additional tariffs, but the Biden administration made an unusual decision in June 2022 to temporarily pause them for two years, to ensure that the United States would still have access to plenty of solar panels.
Groups like the American Clean Power Association, which represents utility solar and energy storage companies, had argued that imposing the tariffs would harm U.S. efforts to combat climate change.
“But if we want to build a durable domestic supply chain that meets our climate goals, continues to create jobs and adds to our energy security, the Biden administration’s industrial policies will need to evolve further and be forceful.”
In the last two years, many have built up factories in Southeast Asia that may allow them to argue that they are doing substantial manufacturing there, not simply circumventing tariffs by routing goods through those countries, industry executives said.
In April, a group of American solar manufacturers filed another set of cases with the Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission, asking them to investigate unfair subsidies and pricing practices from factories in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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