By Sofia Liska
May 22 – The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed tariffs of 31 percent to 250 percent on Chinese solar panels, upsetting American solar panel installers, Chinese solar panel manufacturers, and Chinese officials. In doing so, the U.S. government effectively sided with solar panel manufacturer SolarWorld Industries America, who claimed that Chinese companies were dumping their under-priced and illegally subsidized solar panels onto the U.S. market.
The United States had already imposed a tariff in March of between 2.9 percent and 4.73 percent in order to offset the illegal government subsidies received by Chinese solar panel manufacturers, but American solar panel manufacturers were not satisfied. Continue reading






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