Inside Trade

September 20, 2025

CIT vacates Biden-era moratorium on solar duties

By Margaret Spiegelman  / August 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The U.S. Court of International Trade has ordered the Commerce Department to vacate a two-year moratorium established in 2022 on duties levied on solar products found to be circumventing U.S. trade remedies. CIT on Aug. 22 granted a motion by domestic companies Auxin Solar, Inc. and Concept Clean Energy, Inc. to rescind rules implementing the pause, which had applied to duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules that Commerce had found to be evading antidumping and countervailing duty orders...

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