The Biden administration announced new import duties on solar products from Southeast Asia on Friday — the latest move in a long-running trade investigation that will be handed off to the incoming Trump administration.
In a preliminary determination, the Commerce Department agreed with claims from some domestic manufacturers that solar panel and cell imports from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia are being dumped into the United States at less-than-fair value. The majority of solar panel and cell imports into the U.S. are currently from those four countries.
Friday’s announcement is the last of two preliminary decisions from the Biden administration under the investigation prompted by a coalition of U.S. solar manufacturers who allege that Chinese companies operating in Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia are undercutting the growing U.S. industry.
The department set initial penalties as part of the concurrent probe in October that examined use of unfair subsidies in those four countries.
