solar tariff
Solar tariffs kill Americans
Researchers show how solar panel imports saved nearly 600 American lives over a decade, while industry data indicates that the Suniva solar tariff may have caused more than one hundred preventable deaths. Burning fossil fuels drives air pollution, intensifies heat, and accelerates climate change. These forces, in turn, fuel increasingly destructive hurricanes, some now so […]
A tightened U.S. solar trade environment
Tariffs, foreign content restrictions, and antidumping and countervailing duty investigations have reshaped the landscape for imports of solar components and manufactured products. From pv magazine RE+ Special Edition Imports are a huge portion of the U.S. supply of solar, but new laws are attempting to swing the pendulum in order to drive more domestic manufacturing. […]
Qcells’ customs-detained cells released to its Georgia factories
A tightening in federal customs enforcement under a law to restrict imports made by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region had snagged Qcells cell imports from Southeast Asia. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released shipments of South Korean cell imports bound for Qcells’ module factory in Georgia after earlier denying them U.S. entry in […]