“Today’s filing will ensure that the playing field for American solar manufacturing is level and ready for the scaled investments necessary to address climate change. For too long, obvious circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar products has hobbled the U.S. industry, eviscerated our supply chains, and put our clean energy future at risk. It is time for America to lead in this critical sector. This targeted enforcement action ensures that the United States’ status as an innovation and manufacturing leader will not be endangered by exploitative trade practices that harm the American worker.”

“… eviscerated our supply chains,…”, Corporate America has done this as the Chinese have a better plan than “offshoring” facilities in the name of profits, for gaining benefits in corporate taxes. So, the REC foundry in Washington State was a going concern using cheap hydro-electric power to run manufacturing in the facility. In one article, there was a boast that the REC plant could actually manufacture two years worth of cells in one year. Being ahead while upgrading a product line to increase output without missing a beat would be a good thing, so what happened to all of these Grandiose plans?