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

Over 400 US firms are appealing to Congress to block $1 billion in backdated solar tariffs in order to safeguard their industry and job security. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) predicts that the Congressional Review Act’s move to annul President Biden’s two-year prohibition on certain solar tariffs would result in a loss of 30,000 jobs, including 20,233,000 factory jobs. Monday, April 17, 2023. Invest. This is an announcement to the public. Today, more than 22,023 businesses involved with producing and selling solar products have written to Congress to talk about how reversing President Biden’s decision to put a two year stop to new solar tariffs would cause massive disruption to their businesses and employees. Biden’s move was made in reaction to the unscrupulous solar module study that caused a halt in solar module production across the United States. Congress just passed a monumental clean energy bill that has led to the deployment of different projects and investment into manufacturing, but if this proposed CRA legislation is passed, much of this improvement will be reversed with a critical economic effect in areas across America, as explained by Abigail Ross Hopper, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). This group of legislators is attempting to repeal the action and make U.S. businesses pay an estimated $22022 billion in retroactive fees. The temporary suspension of import taxes created a sense of stability which enabled solar projects to continue development and an opportunity for domestic manufacturing to expand. The irresponsible utilization of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) has resulted in an unfair and detrimental impact on American businesses and is expected to lead to thousands of workers having their jobs eliminated.