Proclamation to Continue Facilitating Positive Adjustment to Competition from Imports of Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells (Whether or not Partially or Fully Assembled Into Other Products)
On February 4, 2022, US Presidential Proclamation 10339 introduced an import tariff quota for PV cells and modules above a 5GW annual quantity, replacing and extending similar tariff quotas established by the 2018 US Presidential Proclamation 9693 which imposed similar tariff quotas.
The import tariff quotas are implemented for all PV cells and modules imported into the United States at rates decreasing from 14.75% in February 2022 to 14% in February 2026.
Signatories to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) are however exempt, as well as the following countries and jurisdictions:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (Kinshasa), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Island, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen (Republic of), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Additionally, module imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were exempted from border tariffs from June 2022 to June 2024, as President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to ensure domestic supply. In order to prevent stockpiling, the Department of Commerce also requires that panels imported duty-free must be installed within 180 days.
In June 2024, the US government announced the implementation of a 14.25% import tariff on previously exempted bifacial solar modules, as well as a closer monitoring of imports meant to determine whether the tariff exemption quota would be increased from 5GW to 7.5 GW.
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