Comments on: Revised 301 tariffs hone in on Chinese solar products, with some exceptions https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/05/revised-301-tariffs-hone-in-on-chinese-solar-products-with-some-exceptions/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Tue, 14 May 2024 23:39:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Solarman2 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/05/revised-301-tariffs-hone-in-on-chinese-solar-products-with-some-exceptions/#comment-145518 Tue, 14 May 2024 23:39:09 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=105871#comment-145518 Thank you for this disclosure that 301 tariffs are not under the same scrutiny as 201 tariffs. As one might remember Joe Biden “curtailed” until 2024 the AD/CVD process and this one comes along in 4 year intervals. Once again the amount of the tariffs on solar PV components from China is going to hit the U.S. construction queues to cause curtailment and maybe outright cancelling a project, “until another day.”

There is no ‘free lunch’ and these actions like the former 201/301 tariff list will have some consequences in the solar PV sector. NOW one gets to find out if enough development has happened in making solar PV wafers, cells, and panels in the U.S. and companies like Heilene, Meyer Burger, Silfab and Mission Solar a period to catch their breath or not? What happens to the people in the U.S. working in the Jinko Solar plant in Florida? How about Trina Solar in Texas? And what about the Longhi Solar plant announced last year for construction in Ohio sometime this year? How about Gotion High Tech building their plant in Michigan, is that now dead on the vine due to increased 301 tariffs? To me it sounds like this is going to do more harm than good. The last time this happened, some solar PV companies closed their doors leaving maybe 8,000 people without jobs, but, the supply chain collapsed and this affected about 120,000 solar PV installers across the U.S..

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