This week, the Biden Administration crushed a campaign by American solar manufacturers to guarantee tariffs were imposed on products made by Chinese solar manufacturers who have shifted their production to other nearby foreign countries to dodge U.S. tariffs.
"The Commerce Department's unwillingness to investigate illegal circumvention by Chinese solar companies is a gift to the Chinese Communist Party that comes at the expense of American companies and American workers," Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) CEO Michael Stumo announced in a statement:
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"President Biden promised to create 10 million green new jobs. Instead, this decision ensures that China's use of Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang to manufacture polysilicon will continue. The Biden administration claims to want to Build Back Better and boost U.S. domestic manufacturing but a decision like this that only benefits the Chinese Communist Party is a serious red flag that the Build Back Better initiative is nothing more than a slogan."
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The American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention, made up of several domestic manufacturers, filed a petition in August, urging the Biden Administration to examine whether Chinese solar manufacturers were illegally avoiding tariffs by moving production to Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Biden had been lobbied by 12 Senate Democrats who sent a letter asking the administration not to impose any tariffs on the Chinese solar manufacturers’ products in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
"New tariffs on solar products from these three countries would stall many ongoing and planned U.S. solar projects, negatively impacting every segment of the U.S. solar industry and resulting in significant job losses," the Senate Democrats addressed.
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Those who signed the letter include Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Tom Carper (D-DE), Angus King (DME), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and John Hickenlooper (D-CO).
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The move, lobbying by Democrats, and voters from 32 House and Senate Republicans who supported Biden's infrastructure bill, marks the commitment to foreign imports and offshoring manufacturing among both political establishments.
The infrastructure bill, for example, provides massive "Buy American" waivers to industries that can produce materials for projects overseas instead of in the U.S. as long as they get approval from federal agencies.
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The 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill are John Katko (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ), Fred Upton (R-MI), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Don Young (R-AK), Tom Reed (R-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), and David McKinley (R-WV).
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