San Francisco | The US set new duties as high as 3521 per cent on solar imports from four South-East Asian countries, delivering a win for US manufacturers while intensifying headwinds already threatening America’s renewable power development.
The duties announced this week are the culmination of a year-long trade probe that found solar manufacturers in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand were unfairly benefiting from government subsidies and selling exports to the US at rates lower than the cost of production. The investigation was sought by domestic solar manufacturers and initiated under former president Joe Biden.
