{"id":2005015,"date":"2023-08-18T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/commerce-finalizes-duties-on-asian-solar-panel-makers-seen-as-skirting-china-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:54:15","slug":"commerce-finalizes-duties-on-asian-solar-panel-makers-seen-as-skirting-china-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/commerce-finalizes-duties-on-asian-solar-panel-makers-seen-as-skirting-china-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce imposes duties on Asian solar panel makers suspected of evading China tariffs."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fcommerce-finalizes-duties-on-asian-solar-panel-makers-seen-as-skirting-china-tariffs%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=2005015&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>The Commerce Department Imposes Additional Tariffs on\u2063 Solar Panel\u200b Manufacturers<\/h2>\n<p>The Commerce Department has \u200cmade a\u200c final\u2063 decision to impose extra tariffs on solar \u200bpanel manufacturers from\u2064 certain Asian countries. This comes \u2064after an investigation \u200crevealed that\u200c these manufacturers were evading existing U.S. tariffs on China. <\/p>\n<p>The decision aligns with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/commerce-finalizes-duties-on-asian-solar-panel-makers-seen-as-skirting-china-tariffs\/\" title=\"Commerce imposes duties on Asian solar panel makers suspected of evading China tariffs.\">preliminary findings issued<\/a> by the Commerce Department in December. Auxin Solar, a California-based solar\u2064 module manufacturer, had requested the investigation to determine if \u200dChinese companies operating \u200cin\u2064 these \u200ccountries were circumventing anti-dumping and countervailing \u2063duties on Chinese solar products.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter a thorough, transparent, \u200dand data-driven \u2062investigation of eight companies across the four countries, Commerce found that five of the\u200c eight companies investigated are attempting to\u200c bypass U.S.\u2064 duties by doing minor processing in one \u200cof the\u200c Southeast Asian countries before\u200d shipping to the United States,\u201d the \u2064Commerce Department said \u200cin \u2063a statement \u2064Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, these tariffs\u2062 will not be immediately implemented due to the Solar Emergency Declaration \u2062issued by the Biden administration last June. The declaration created a 24-month \u200dexemption for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-invokes-dpa-to-mass-produce-solar-panels\/\" title=\"Biden invokes DPA to mass produce solar panels\">solar panels imported<\/a> from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, allowing them to be exempt from anti-dumping\u200b and countervailing duties while U.S. solar manufacturing increases. \u200dAs a result, the new tariffs cannot take effect until June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff exemption has\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pentagon-pick-colin-kahl-denies-leaking-classified-information-on-social-media\/\" title=\"Biden Pentagon Pick Colin Kahl Denies Leaking Classified Information on Social Media\">faced strong opposition<\/a> from \u200bU.S. solar manufacturers,\u2063 who have criticized the Biden administration for maintaining the emergency declaration despite the\u200b final decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2064White House should\u200d be absolutely ashamed \u200bthat, despite\u2062 its own \u200dCommerce Department determining that the Chinese are illegally violating U.S. trade law, it remains intent \u2064on protecting China\u2019s predatory activity and rewarding their cheating,\u201d Zach Mottl, the chairman of the Coalition\u200c for a Prosperous \u200bAmerica, said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, domestic producers and \u200dsupporters of the Commerce Department&#8217;s investigation \u200chave praised the department&#8217;s independent review of\u200d the\u200d case.<\/p>\n<p>The solar industry\u200d has been divided on these rules.\u200b Larger solar manufacturers, including those reliant on imported cells and modules, strongly \u2062opposed the tariffs. They argued that the\u2063 mere possibility of \u200bthese tariffs \u200dcould jeopardize President Biden&#8217;s climate agenda\u2063 and various incentives for manufacturers provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Department has confirmed its decision to impose extra tariffs on solar panel manufacturers from specific Asian countries. This comes after their investigation revealed that these manufacturers were evading existing U.S. tariffs on China. The final decision aligns with the preliminary findings issued by the Commerce Department in December. Auxin Solar, a California-based solar module manufacturer, is affected by this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}