{"id":1923775,"date":"2023-05-03T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-undo-freeze-on-chinese-solar-tariffs-setting-up-showdown-with-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T23:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:43:02","slug":"senate-votes-to-undo-freeze-on-chinese-solar-tariffs-setting-up-showdown-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-undo-freeze-on-chinese-solar-tariffs-setting-up-showdown-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to lift Chinese solar tariffs, setting up clash with Biden."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-votes-to-undo-freeze-on-chinese-solar-tariffs-setting-up-showdown-with-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Solar Panel Tariffs: Senate Advances Resolution to Reverse Biden\u2019s Emergency Shield<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0503\/ff5f7fc8-96b2-412d-b973-2821ee187200\/audio.mp3?length=4093677&#038;duration=341\"><\/div>\n<p>The Senate has narrowly advanced a joint resolution reversing the Biden administration\u2019s emergency shield against tariffs for some Chinese-made solar panels. Now the ball\u2019s in President Joe Biden\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has said he will veto the joint resolution, warning the measure would \u201ccreate deep uncertainty for jobs and investments in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-climate-push-prompts-concerns-about-investments-in-china\/\" title=\"Biden Climate Push Prompts Concerns About Investments in China\">solar supply chain<\/a> and the solar installation market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he issues that veto, it would be the third of his presidency\u2014and the pro-tariff legislation would need two-thirds of the vote in both chambers to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>The final vote in the Senate was 51 yeas and 41 nays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get American jobs back,\u201d said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who first introduced the Senate version of the resolution earlier this year, in an interview with NTD\u2019s Melina Wisecup prior to the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The vote comes days after the House voted in favor of their version of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>In it 221 members of Congress supported the legislation, while 202 opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve Democrats broke ranks to join their Republican colleagues in backing the measure, which could end a 24-month tariff freeze for some solar panels with parts from China that undergo final assembly in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1694377\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/China_Solar_Panel.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/China_Solar_Panel.jpg\" alt=\"A masked worker sorts silicon wafers at the manufacturing center of solar cell maker Trina Solar in Changzhou, China, in November 2009. (Philippe Lopez\/AFP via Getty Images)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h3>Tariffs Divide Democrats<\/h3>\n<p>In the hours before the May 3 evening vote, some Democrats in the Senate publicized their concerns with the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), a group of nine lawmakers penned a letter via Medium explaining why they don\u2019t back the reimposition of solar panel tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>One signatory, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), has long faced criticism from Republicans and conservatives because of her ties to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-undo-freeze-on-chinese-solar-tariffs-setting-up-showdown-with-biden\/\" title=\"Senate votes to lift Chinese solar tariffs, setting up clash with Biden.\">current domestic solar manufacturing<\/a> can only meet about 15 percent of demand. As we work to bolster our manufacturing capabilities here at home, we must temporarily rely on these imported panels to satisfy our domestic demand and support American solar jobs,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<p>It claims the resolution, \u201cwill kill jobs, raise energy costs, weaken our nation\u2019s energy security, and make us less competitive with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether there\u2019s a two-year [tariff] extension or not, the chip manufacturing and battery manufacturing is flocking to the United States,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told NTD\u2019s Melina Wisecup in comments before the Wednesday vote.<\/p>\n<p>Other Senate Democrats, including Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), made their support for the resumption of tariffs clear in the days before the May 3 Senate vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States relies on foreign nations, like China, for far too many of our energy needs, and failing to enforce our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-continues-feud-with-biden-admin-backs-gop-bills-to-roll-back-two-pillars-of-biden-climate-agenda\/\" title=\"Manchin Continues Feud With Biden Admin, Backs GOP Bills To Roll Back Two Pillars Of Biden Climate Agenda\">existing trade laws undermines<\/a> the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to onshore our energy supply chains, including solar,\u201d Manchin said on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president got this one wrong. I\u2019ve always stood up to presidents of both parties to fight for American jobs and American workers,\u201d Brown said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly advanced a joint resolution reversing the Biden administration\u2019s emergency shield against tariffs for some Chinese-made solar panels. Now the ball\u2019s in President Joe Biden\u2019s court. 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