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.

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. In the first round of a trade dispute over imported chinese silicon solar cells and panels chinese companies seem to have prevailed. 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. In a much anticipated decision the commerce department on tuesday said it would impose tariffs of 2 9 to 4 73 on chinese made solar panels after finding the beijing government was providing.