19 U.S. Governors Call On Biden To Quickly End Southeast Asia Solar Tariff Probe
May 20, 2022
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of 19 U.S. governors pressed Presidents Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo to quickly end an anti-dumping circumvention investigation (AD) into Southeast Asian imports of photovoltaics. /CVD).
The 19 states, which make up 43 percent of the U.S. population, said in a joint letter that after the survey began, the U.S. solar industry rapidly deteriorated due to a sharp drop in imports of solar products, threatening thousands of clean energy jobs across the country Jobs and deployment of solar projects, multiple projects in the United States had to be disrupted, and more than 230,000 jobs were threatened.
In response, Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), also issued a statement noting that the joint letter highlights the damage to state economies, power grids and local workforces from the Commerce Department's tariff investigations, despite the fact that the federal government has Efforts to tackle climate change have stalled, but states have been doing an excellent job on clean energy, and now a Biden administration is now standing in the way of state clean energy goals.
With each day the case drags on, President Biden's goal of a clean energy economy gets further out, and we urge the Commerce Department to issue a negative preliminary decision as soon as possible.
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