President Joe Biden authorized an emergency declaration to suspend tariffs on solar panels produced in four Southeast Asian countries for 24 months.
The White House described it as a “bridge” to temporarily permit cheap foreign solar panels to enter the U.S. market while simultaneously supporting the domestic solar manufacturing sector.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the declaration, telling reporters during a news conference that “the emergency is a threat to the availability of sufficient electricity generation capacity to meet expected customer demand.”
But there is a concern that the Biden administration is diminishing the severity of the Commerce Department’s investigation into potential Chinese trade violations….