The solar industry is starting to get whiplash. Over the past year in particular, the industry has experienced a whirlwind of regulatory changes making solar tariffs some of the most complex tariffs in all of U.S. importing...more
Two years after declaring a national emergency and instructing the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) to pause the imposition of AD/CVD duties applicable to certain imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells...more
On April 24, 2024, a group of domestic producers of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) solar cells and modules filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)...more
The Petition - On April 24, 2024, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee ("Petitioners") filed antidumping duty ("ADD") and countervailing duty ("CVD") petitions on imports of crystalline silicon...more
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) issued its Final Determination on August 18, 2023 related to circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders A-570-979 and C-570-980 (the Orders) on certain crystalline...more
On August 17, 2023, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) made the final determination in its investigations of whether crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam...more
Summary - On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published its final affirmative circumvention determinations for solar products exported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Commerce’s...more
On August 18, 2023, the US Department of Commerce ("Commerce") issued its final affirmative determinations that solar cells and modules completed in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam (collectively, "Southeast Asia")...more
On May 16, 2023, President Joseph Biden vetoed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have nullified the temporary moratorium on the collection of antidumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) duties on imports of...more
On May 3, 2023, the Senate approved a bill that would undo President Biden’s two-year delay on the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam....more
On December 8, 2022, the US Department of Commerce ("Commerce") published its preliminary determinations that solar cells and modules completed in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam (collectively, "Southeast Asia")...more
On December 8, 2022, the Department of Commerce published a preliminary determination that finds that imports into the U.S. of Chinese crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) solar cells and modules exported from Vietnam,...more
On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued preliminary affirmative determinations of circumvention with respect to crystalline silicon photovoltaic (“CSPV”) cells and modules exported to the...more
What happened? On December 2, 2022, the US Department of Commerce issued its long-awaited preliminary determinations in the circumvention inquiries on solar cell and module imports triggered by the petition that was...more
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) issued its preliminary determination on December 2, 2022, related to circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders A-570-979 and C-570-980 (the Orders) with respect...more
The US Department of Commerce published a final rule on September 16 implementing President Joseph Biden’s Proclamation 10414, which declared an emergency with respect to US electricity generation capacity. The final rule...more
On September 16, 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department released its final rule regarding antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) circumvention inquiries on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and...more
The US Department of Commerce (Commerce) has finalized its proposed regulations (Final Rule) implementing Presidential Proclamation 10414. In Proclamation 10414, US President Joe Biden temporarily waived the application of...more
On March 25, 2022, pursuant to allegations made by Auxin Solar Inc., the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) initiated a circumvention inquiry into whether imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells (CSPVs) from...more
On March 28, the Department of Commerce announced that it is initiating investigations to determine whether solar cells and modules assembled in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping (AD)...more