4 Key Takeaways | Solar Industry & Chinese Tariff Update
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
There has been a flurry of activity in U.S. trade policy over the past several weeks that will impact a variety of goods imported into the U.S., including solar panel modules, EVs, and batteries. Kilpatrick attorneys have...more
On May 14, 2024, President Biden announced that he is directing his Trade Representative to increase tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on a wide range of Chinese goods, which will significantly impact U.S....more
Welcome to the first issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our new monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...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
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 8, 2023, federal agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in executing a search warrant at JinkoSolar’s solar panel manufacturing plant in Jacksonville,...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 a preliminary determination in its circumvention inquiry regarding crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells (Solar Cells) and modules, laminates, and panels...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
On December 2, 2022, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) preliminarily issued a “country-wide” circumvention determination in its circumvention inquiry (“Inquiry”)...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
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 June 6, 2022, the White House declared a national emergency and took the unprecedented step of providing duty-free treatment of solar cells and modules from Southeast Asia for two years, delaying potential tariffs on...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
When imports are suspected of violating US trade law or when they threaten US economic interests, trade litigation (read: trade investigation cases) kicks in. This section focuses on third-country transshipment concerns in...more
As is well known by the market players, in December 2013 the European Union imposed definitive anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on Chinese photovoltaic products and components (Council Implementing Regulation EU...more
Last week, the U.S Department of Commerce announced that it was revising the definition of solar panels from China which are subject to countervailing and antidumping duties to exclude educational solar energy kits which had...more
On February 4, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce (through the International Trade Administration or ITA, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) published a notice initiating the 2nd annual Administrative Review for the...more
As we first reported on Twitter, the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“ITA”) announced in a Fact Sheet on July 25, 2014, its Affirmative Preliminary Determination that certain Chinese and...more