Biden waives solar-panel tariffs, invokes defense law, White House confirms

Clean Energy Technologies

06/06/2022 14:30

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday
invoked the Defense Production Act to spur U.S. solar panel
manufacturing and exempted tariffs on solar panels from four
Southeast Asian nations for two years as part of his push for
clean energy, the White House said. 
    The tariff waiver applies to panels from Cambodia, Malaysia,
Thailand and Vietnam and will serve as a "bridge" while U.S.
manufacturing ramps up, it said in a statement, confirming a
Reuters report. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2XT05B

 (Reporting by Jeff Mason; writing by Susan Heavey)
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