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                         this now.”                           panel installers who want cheap products. But
                           She continued: “Every day this investigation  it angered the small US manufacturing sector,
                         hangs over the solar community is a day of lost  including Auxin, which says China floods the
                         jobs and postponed solar projects critical to the  market with solar products and it wants more
                         Administration’s climate agenda. Without a reli-  protection.
                         able supply of solar modules while this investi-  The White House said that the Biden admin-
                         gation proceeds, project construction will grind  istration will extend a tariff of between 14% and
                         to a halt, American workers risk being laid-off   15% until 2026 on imports of crystalline sili-
                         or furloughed, and we will miss our emissions  con solar products, the most common type of
                         targets – all so that another litigious manipulator  material.
                         can be proven unfounded yet again.”    But the Biden administration also moved
                           A similar petition was lodged last year by a  to double the number of solar cells that can be
                         group named American Solar Manufacturers  imported duty-free – this was to a higher level
                         Against Chinese Circumvention and failed. The  than the US currently imports. The tariff rate
                         group included Auxin.                quota will be 5 GW.
                           In early February, President Joe Biden said   The Biden administration also said it was also
                         that his administration was extending tariffs  exempting bifacial or two-sided panels, used in
                         on imported solar products. The tariffs were  commercial utility-scale projects.
                         first imposed in 2018 during the Trump admin-  The US was further considering allowing
                         istration. Biden, however, said he will allow  Canada and Mexico to export solar products
                         more cells to enter duty-free, a decision wel-  to the US duty-free, said Biden. Mexico quickly
                         comed at the time by project developers and  agreed to talks.it™










































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