The commission’s final determination affirmed its earlier findings that the U.S. solar industry was potentially being harmed by solar cells and modules imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted in favor of The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, in its antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations concerning crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells and modules imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
U.S. trade officials finalized steep tariff levels on most solar cells from Southeast Asia, a key step toward wrapping up a year-old trade case in which American manufacturers accused Chinese companies of flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
The US set new duties as high as 3,521% on solar imports from four Southeast Asian countries, delivering a win for domestic manufacturers while intensifying headwinds already threatening the country’s renewable power development.
Commerce Finalizes Antidumping and Countervailing Duties on Solar Imports from Southeast Asia. Year-long case results in high tariffs for Chinese-owned companies harming the U.S. solar manufacturing industry
Industry Leaders Testify to the Injury Caused to the U.S. Domestic Solar Manufacturing Sector by Illegal Market Practices
For over 12 years, I’ve worked alongside American solar manufacturers to confront illegal dumping and unfair subsidies that have undermined investment, driven companies into bankruptcy and cost American jobs. The solution hasn’t been complicated: We’ve asked our government to enforce its own trade laws. When it has, the results have clearly demonstrated that targeted tariffs work.
Import data recently released by the Commerce Department show a stunning impact of the AD/CVD petitions filed on solar cells and modules in April of 2024 by The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, made up of leading U.S. solar manufacturers from across the country.
The Department of Commerce has issued additional rate increase announcements amending its preliminary determinations in the CVD Investigations into solar cell and module imports from Vietnam and Malaysia.
“After the initial AD and CVD findings were released, we predicted the tariff rates would rise as more data became available,” said Tim Brightbill, Partner at Wiley Rein LLP and lead attorney for the Alliance, which first petitioned for the AD/CVD investigation in April 2024. “This prediction proved accurate.”
