Tai warns against ‘pattern’ of U.S. industry ‘loss’ to China

Disagreement within the U.S. solar industry over the benefit of duties on key imports exemplifies a larger concern over “our competition with China,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told a Senate panel on Wednesday. President Trump in 2018 imposed tariffs on solar cells and panels under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974. The safeguard measure was welcome news to the co-petitioners in the case, Suniva, a U.S. manufacturer and SolarWorld, a German manufacturer with U.S. operations, which said...