Overview

• The Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade filed the petition on July 11, led by First Solar, Qcells, Talon PV and Mission Solar, targeting $1.6 billion in annual panel imports from Indonesia, India and Laos.
• Petitioners accuse foreign producers of selling panels below fair value and benefiting from illegal government subsidies to undercut U.S. factories.
• The Commerce Department must decide by August 1 whether to initiate anti-dumping and countervailing investigations, a process that could result in duties within about a year.
• U.S. solar manufacturing capacity has climbed from 7 GW in 2020 to 50 GW this year but still falls short of the nearly 43 GW in projected annual installations.
• Manufacturers warn that new duties are vital to protect over $20 billion in recent factory investments and thousands of American solar jobs.