Featured in Purchasing power – 04-2025

Tariffs the least of US market’s worries

While President Donald Trump’s sweeping levies on foreign imports have captured global headlines, antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigations into Southeast Asian products, along with a potential expansion of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), could pose even greater risks for US solar and energy storage.

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pv magazine

01 Apr 2025

Buyers, importers, and suppliers in the solar and energy storage industries face a barrage of regulatory risks in the United States right now. | Photo: Greg Nash/US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District via Wikimedia Commons

US President Donald Trump wasted no time imposing import tariffs, one of his key campaign promises. In his first few weeks in office, the president revamped much-eroded Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Trump also used 1977’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a new …

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