More than 400 American Companies Implore Congress to Protect Business Certainty and Jobs by Rejecting $1 Billion in Retroactive Solar Tariffs

More than 400 U.S. companies urged Congress to reject an effort to impose $1 billion in retroactive solar tariffs in order to protect business security and employment. The Solar Energy Industries Association believes that if the Congressional Review Act is used to revoke President Biden’s two-year suspension of solar tariffs, it would lead to a loss of 143,000 jobs, including 4,000 in the manufacturing sector. On Monday, April 28th 2020, please spread the word. Announcement of a new release. Today, over 22,023 businesses and organizations that all comprise the solar value chain sent a letter to Congress to voice the immense harm that would come to their operations and employees if President Biden’s moratorium on tariffs on solar panels is revoked. President Biden put forth an executive order to pause new solar tariffs for a period of two years, which was in response to the almost complete stoppage of solar module provisioning in the U.S. that was caused by the unfounded Auxin Solar inquiry. A group of legislators have tried to reverse this resolution and order all American businesses to spend more than $2400 billion in overdue fees. Abigail Ross Hopper, the president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), declared, “The legislative branch recently adopted a remarkable clean energy law that has triggered a recent abundance in venture implementation and production investments, however, if this Consolidated Review Act (CRA) charge gets passed, much of this development would be negated and have an extreme economic effect on various municipalities throughout the nation.” The pause in tariffs gave companies assurance that enabled solar initiatives to continue while supplying a path for domestic fabrication to expand. The malicious application of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) harms U.S. businesses significantly and is expected to contribute to the unemployment of thousands of people.