[cport]

"Right now, the U.S. reserves the right to slap large tariffs on China, as it has done on steel (up to 236 percent), solar panels (up to 78 percent)..."

I find this very interesting. The imposition of tariffs on solar panels contribute to the higher costs of renewable energy in this country, much to the dismay of the left; this same left who rail against businesses outsourcing to produce cheaper product in a choice driven economic system. Without this tariff, you could have the choice of buying a solar panel system at WallyWorld that might not last as long, or buy a higher quality US made system at a higher price. Eliminating consumer choice is a bullet point of communism.

[JAKraig]

I just bought 36 large panels, nearly 12kw for my house. The original brand I selected after months of research was made in Germany. The German company has a couple of manufacturing facilities in the US because most of the demand is here and you save by not shipping them. The Panel I wanted however was a large size and not made here yet. The company I bought them from let me know that they would be a couple months late because of production problems in Germany and suggested I take a slightly smaller cell from China and that they would refund me money based on that. I didn't want a cell from China. So ended up buying from the last major American manufacturer of solar panels. For a $5.00 radio I guess China is OK but when it comes to spending 10’s of thousands of dollars I'm not doing it in China.

The Tariff on solar cells likely cost me about $15,000 extra, I'm not sure what I would have done if the China cells were only 1/5th the cost of the American. China was dumping their cells here, the tariff was fair.