{"id":95634,"date":"2021-08-05T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/?p=95634"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:17:58","slug":"q-cells-lg-mission-solar-join-petition-to-extend-solar-panel-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2021\/08\/q-cells-lg-mission-solar-join-petition-to-extend-solar-panel-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Q CELLS, LG, Mission Solar join petition to extend solar panel tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

After California-based solar panel assembly facility Auxin Solar and dormant Georgia solar cell company Suniva filed a petition earlier this week<\/a> with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to extend safeguard relief for crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells and modules, three other U.S. solar panel assemblers have added their names to the petition. Hanwha Q CELLS (facility in Georgia), LG Electronics (Alabama) and Mission Solar (Texas) yesterday submitted their own petition to the ITC asking for a review on tariffs first initiated in 2018<\/a> that are set to expire in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Archive photo courtesy Mission Solar Energy<\/p><\/div>\n

“Today\u2019s CSPV manufacturing industry is an important part of the United States\u2019 clean energy industrial base. The objective of the Administration to achieve 100% carbon-pollution free electricity by 2035 is an historic undertaking in a relatively short amount of time
\nand one that requires a stable and growing domestic CSPV industry. Without extension of the safeguard action, progress to achieve the Administration\u2019s objective would be significantly challenged,” the three companies say. “The petitioning companies have not yet received the full benefit intended by the safeguard action and therefore are in need of additional time to complete their adjustment and facilitate the domestic module production critical to the Administration\u2019s ambitious plan to make the energy sector carbon-free by 2035.”<\/p>\n

The tariffs on imported solar cells and panels began in 2018 after U.S. manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld filed a Section 201 petition with the ITC, claiming that imported solar cells and panels were coming into the country so cheap that they were killing the U.S. solar manufacturing market. The safeguard tariffs were set on a four-year drop-down schedule, with full expiration expected in February 2022. Imported bifacial solar panels<\/a>\u00a0were excluded from the import tariffs for a short time but are today taxed the same as traditional solar panels. All types of imported crystalline silicon solar panels (except for a few minor exemptions<\/a>) have faced an 18% tax since February 2021.<\/p>\n

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See\u00a0Solar Power World\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0archived tariff coverage here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Q CELLS, LG and Mission are joining Auxin Solar and Suniva in asking for a four-year extension on the tariffs. The new stepdown would look like:<\/p>\n