Utility Dive: Trade panel clears path for higher tariffs on some solar imports

Dive Brief:

• Additional tariffs will be imposed on solar imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam after the U.S. International Trade Commission voted that the domestic solar industry is materially injured by them, the ITC announced Tuesday.
• This finding follows the U.S. Commerce Department’s April final determination in an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into solar imports from four Southeast Asian countries, which resulted in subsidy rates as high as 3,403.96% for some exporters.
• “The ITC vote now clears the way for updating those rates and an order that will be issued shortly to address unfair trade more fully,” said Tim Brightbill, attorney for the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, the alliance of seven U.S. solar manufacturers that petitioned the ITC and Commerce. “We’re very pleased with that … We got some great results today.”