The United States is committed to becoming a solar energy superpower as its president, Joe Biden, looks at ways to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals.
In order to boost the country's renewable energy production, Biden has announced his intention to use his executive powers to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of solar panels and issue a 24-month tariff exemption on imports of the products from several Asian countries. Advancements in the manufacturing of this technology froze last March, after the Commerce Department launched an inquiry into possible trade violations involving Chinese products.
The investigation halted the flow of solar panels that make up more than half of US supplies and 80 per cent of imports.
The Commerce Department is still scrutinising imports of solar panels from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, concerned that products from those countries are circumventing the tariffs imposed on goods...