News Forum - United States trade dispute on solar products from Thailand, Southeast Asia

[Thaiger]

Projects in the United States might freeze over a recent dispute on solar panels imported from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Even though these countries supply the United States with about 80% of its solar imports, the United States’ Commerce Department is scheduled to probe whether the solar products are circumventing tariffs. The probe is over whether Chinese manufacturers are circumventing tariffs by assembling their products in the four countries. The United States’ Solar Energy Industries Association’s chief executive officer said the dispute is a challenge to President Joe Biden’s efforts to support renewable energy. “It’s just not a rational […]

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[HolyCowCm]

 

The Chinese circumventing origin by acts of mischievous production in other countries under another flag? Oh my - Ya think so? Absolutely, as if you go to Vietnam you can easily see many Chinese owned and run factory that produce products, especially food as is from what I have seen. This is nothing new but needs to be closed up and shut down.

 

[Leeshard]

Rules of origin are extremely complicated. If all the parts are made in China and then simply assembled in a country that attracts lower import duty and then passed off as having been ‘manufactured’ there, then there could be a problem. 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Leeshard