When the U.S. government launched an investigation in 2024 into whether solar cells and panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were being dumped into the American market at prices that made U.S. manufacturers unable to compete, operations in those countries quickly shifted elsewhere. Soon, imports from India, Indonesia and Laos started ratcheting up.
The U.S. industry took notice. Today, a new antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigation has been petitioned by the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade into the three new countries.
The U.S. International Trade Court (ITC) and the Dept. of Commerce (DOC) officially placed a range of tariffs on silicon solar cells (whether or not assembled into panels) from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam earlier this year. That investigation was petitioned by the same group of U.S. manufacturers that are now asking for a look at India, Indonesia and Laos. The trade group consists of thin-film panel manufacturer First Solar, silicon cell startup Talon PV and silicon panel manufacturers Qcells and Mission Solar.
# # #