Client Alert
Section 201 Proceeding Announcement:
On Monday January 22, the U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced and on January 23, President Trump signed am executive order to provide relief to U.S. manufacturers and impose safeguard tariffs on imported solar cells and modules, based on the investigations, findings, and recommendations of the independent, bipartisan U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
The U.S. Trade Representative recommended, and the President chose to take action by applying, the following additional duties on imported solar cells and modules:
Year 1: 30%
Year 2: 25%
Year 3: 20%
Year 4: 15%.
The first 2.5 gigawatt of imported cells are excluded from the additional tariff. We are continuing to monitor the imposition of these duties and will provide additional information on our website as available. If you have any questions, please contact any of our renewable energy or administrative law attorneys.
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