Obama Imposes Tariffs On Solar Panels

I n the biggest blow he s dealt to the renewable energy industry yet president donald trump decided on monday to slap tariffs on imported solar panels.

Obama imposes tariffs on solar panels.

The obama administration had imposed tariffs on imports of solar equipment from factories in china but that did not affect production sites in other countries such as malaysia or vietnam where. Since trump imposed 30 percent import tariffs on solar cells and modules in 2018 solar companies such as first solar hanwha q cells and jinkosolar have built about 3 gigawatts of u s based. The department announced anti dumping duties of 26 71 percent to 78 42 percent on imports of most solar panels made in china and rates of 11 45 percent to 27 55 percent on imports of solar cells. In the first round of a trade dispute over imported chinese silicon solar cells and panels chinese companies seem to have prevailed.