U.S Solar: Worried By The Recent China Solar Tariffs

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U.S Solar: Worried By The Recent China Solar Tariffs Last week’s decision by the Commerce Department to impose stiff tariffs on Chinese silicon photovoltaic manufacturers was applauded by SolarWorld and the members of the Coalition for Solar Manufacturing (CASM). Other U.S. companies, including project developers, materials suppliers and manufacturers took a much more wary approach to the news, contending that such fees could negatively...

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  • ggunn
    ggunn Solar Expert Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭
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    IMO, this is a wrongheaded move. Assessing a tariff on Chinese modules can only help US manufacturers here in the US market, and at the same time it will act to depress that very same market by driving system prices up. Again IMO, a far better strategy would have been to fight fire with fire by subsidizing our own manufacturers to make them more competitive worldwide and keep system prices down. Instead, we continue to subsidize the fossil fuel industry who are making money hand over fist and don't need our help. It must be great to operate in a market where your customers have no choice but to buy your product at whatever price you ask, where your profit margin is a percentage of your raw materials cost so the higher your feedstock price the more money you make, and where your government throws more money at you every time you turn around.
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    tmarch Solar Expert Posts: 143 ✭✭
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    ggunn wrote: »
    IMO, this is a wrongheaded move. Assessing a tariff on Chinese modules can only help US manufacturers here in the US market, and at the same time it will act to depress that very same market by driving system prices up. Again IMO, a far better strategy would have been to fight fire with fire by subsidizing our own manufacturers to make them more competitive worldwide and keep system prices down. Instead, we continue to subsidize the fossil fuel industry who are making money hand over fist and don't need our help. It must be great to operate in a market where your customers have no choice but to buy your product at whatever price you ask, where your profit margin is a percentage of your raw materials cost so the higher your feedstock price the more money you make, and where your government throws more money at you every time you turn around.

    Kinda like a lot of electric utility companies!!!!!!!!!!
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