Comments on: Commerce rejects anonymous petition to tariff solar panels imported from Southeast Asia https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/commerce-rejects-anonymous-petition-to-tariff-solar-panels-imported-from-southeast-asia/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/commerce-rejects-anonymous-petition-to-tariff-solar-panels-imported-from-southeast-asia/#comment-118875 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:07:56 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=96589#comment-118875 “The decision comes as a relief to the U.S. solar installation community, which was predicting major job losses if excessive tariffs on imported solar panels delayed or altered utility-scale project plans. A-SMACC was requesting additional tariffs ranging from 50 to 250% on panel imports coming from the three countries — an area that supplied 80% of U.S. crystalline silicon solar module imports in the first half of 2021.”

This time around the names on the list are primarily Chinese Solar PV Corporations crying the loudest. The Commerce Department would more than likely say, “Go ahead and put tariffs on these entities”. The larger problem that hasn’t been properly addressed is supply chain for silicon both mono-crystalline or poly crystalline [within the boarders] of the U.S.. China can feed the rest of the World with silicon foundry products, it doesn’t need the U.S., so who does it hurt when tariffs are applied to solar PV panels and BOM products? How about the hundreds of thousands of installation personnel now and in the future that won’t have jobs, because solar PV is too expensive to have installed now.

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