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Via GCR: https://www.greencarreports.com/new...-import-tariffs-on-clean-power-growth-debated
A majority of the photovoltaic solar panels used in the U.S. are imported from such countries as China, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. Now, environmentalists and energy analysts worry that the new 30-percent tariff on solar-panel imports announced last Monday by President Donald Trump may stymie the rapidly growing clean-energy industry.
The tariff would apply to imported panels above 2.5 gigawatts and would fall by 5 percent each year for four years. . . .
Observers worry the tariff could have a crippling impact on the solar power industry, which relies heavily on imported panels for its installations.
The industry has averaged annual growth of 68 percent for the last decade, according to an industry group, while a 2016 report estimated that the total cumulative capacity of installed U.S. solar panels was roughly 40 gigawatts. . . .