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>Further, the tariff applies to all imported cells, not just those originating in mainland China, which is odd if this just to counter unfair advantages that Ch
by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>Further, the tariff applies to all imported cells, not just those originating in mainland China, which is odd if this just to counter unfair advantages that Chinese manufacturers get.
If the tariff were just to target China, China would just route the shipments through other countries to get around the tariffs.
The upside to this news is that the tariff expires after 4 years according to http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370171-trump-imposes-30-tariffs-on-solar-panel-imports http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370171-trump-im... while the Bloomberg article implies it will stick at 15 percent until someone cancels it.
- makomk 9y agoThis isn't a hypothetical, incidentally; the US has caught Chinese goods being routed through other countries and mislabelled as to its origin in order to avoid similar tariffs before now.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoThis was a big part of the honey trade between US/Russia/China from the Netflix documentary "Rotten". I forget if it was tariffs or bans they were evading.