The industry gets 80 percent of its solar panel products from imports largely from china.
Tariff on solar panels from china.
Solar grade polysilicon is the major building block for not only solar panels but also for the semiconductor industry making it an important resource internationally.
Trump s china tariffs one in the shape of a solar panel companies that build america s major solar farms spent 2018 and early 2019 begging the administration to exempt jumbo versions of two.
During the trade war china imposed tariffs on imported polysilicon from american manufacturers effectively shutting out us producers from one of the largest markets in the world.
The president approved four years of tariffs that start at 30 percent in the.
The first 2 5 gigawatts of imported solar cells will be exempt from the tariffs trump said in a statement monday.