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US Imposes Tariffs Up to 3,521% on Southeast Asia Solar Imports​

By Mark Chediak and Jennifer A Dlouhy
22 April 2025 at 5:03 AM SGT
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22 April 2025 at 12:15 PM SGT
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The US set new duties as high as 3,521% on solar imports from four Southeast Asian countries, delivering a win for domestic manufacturers while intensifying headwinds already threatening the country’s renewable power development.

The duties announced Monday are the culmination of a yearlong trade probe that found solar manufacturers in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand were unfairly benefiting from government subsidies and selling exports to the US at rates lower than the cost of production. The investigation was sought by domestic solar manufacturers and initiated under former President Joe Biden.
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Most are made in Chinese-owned factories to bypass American duties

A worker kneels by one of the solar cell panels over the water surface of Sirindhorn Dam in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, in April 2021. © Reuters

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Vietnam, Malaysia and two other Asean countries hit with US duties ranging from 169 to 3,404% on solar exports​

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HANOI: The US has officially imposed steep tariffs on solar energy products imported from four South-East Asian countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia.

The tariffs unveiled on April 21 vary widely depending on the company and country, but were broadly higher than the preliminary duties announced late last year.

 

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US finalises tariffs on Malaysian, Southeast Asian solar imports​

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U.S. trade officials finalized steep tariff levels on most solar cells from Southeast Asia, a key step toward wrapping up a year-old trade case in which American manufacturers accused Chinese companies of flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.

The case was brought last year by Korea's Hanwha Qcells , Arizona-based First Solar Inc and several smaller producers seeking to protect billions of dollars in investments in U.S. solar manufacturing.

 

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The petitioner group, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, accused big Chinese solar panel makers with factories in Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam of shipping panels priced below their cost of production and of receiving unfair subsidies that make American goods uncompetitive.

The tariffs unveiled on Monday vary widely depending on the company and country, but were broadly higher than the preliminary duties announced late last year.

 

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Combined dumping and countervailing duties on Jinko Solar products from Malaysia were among the lowest at 41.56%. Rival Trina Solar's products from its operations in Thailand face tariffs of 375.19%.

Neither Jinko nor Trina were immediately available for comment.

Products from Cambodia would face duties of more than 3,500% because its producers elected not to cooperate with the U.S. probe.


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"These are very strong results," Tim Brightbill, an attorney for the U.S. manufacturing group, said on a call with reporters. "We are confident that they will address the unfair trade practices of the Chinese-owned companies in these four countries, which have been injuring the U.S. solar manufacturing industry for far too long."

The threat of tariffs on countries that supplied more than $10 billion of solar products to the United States last year, accounting for the vast majority of domestic supplies, has caused a dramatic shift in the global solar trade. Imports from the four targeted countries this year are a fraction of what they were a year ago, while shipments of panels from nations like Laos and Indonesia are on the rise.

Critics of the effort, including the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) trade group, have said tariffs would harm U.S. solar producers because they would raise prices on the imported cells that are assembled into panels by American factories. Those facilities have been on the rise since a new subsidy for clean energy manufacturing was created in 2022.

SEIA officials were not immediately available for comment.

In order for the tariffs to be finalized, the International Trade Commission must vote in June on whether the industry was materially harmed by the dumped and subsidized imports. - Reuters

 

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When JD Vance touched down in India on Monday, many were wondering what kind of controversy the US vice president might stir during his short visit.

A meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the agenda, as the two nations work toward a bilateral trade deal. Like every other country besides China, New Delhi has been spared the full force of President Donald Trump’s tariffs for 90 days. But the clock is ticking: Washington is pressing ahead with its trade war and ramping up efforts to isolate Beijing. If an agreement isn’t reached by the end of that timeframe, the US is threatening to increase the 10% tariffs on Indian exports to 26%.
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