Tariffs On Solar Panel Imports Announced
But implementation date not firm...but it will be soon. Please. No political comments which do not do a damned bit of good. 25% price increase on a thousand dollars of panels is not chickenfeed....
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These tariffs are no surprise to the industry. The Solar Blvd tech and I discussed this a couple of months ago when I called them. The industry was already sweating it, the uncertainty of it. Should they buy inventory? Prices quoted were sometimes only good for 24 hrs, because no one knew what tomorrow would bring. I jumped on buying my system because I felt prices would go up if I waited. That remains to be seen, but it was my gamble at the time.
I am clueless really as to how the tariffs are collected. But I would assume that tariffs are calculated based on the country of origin and the purchasing country destination. It shouldn't matter what ports, or how many ports, the products may pass through, as long as the product does not become inventory in one of those ports. So I don't see how panels from China, shipped to Mexico, would be subject to a US tariff simply because a freight forwarder moved them through Los Angeles. I don't think it works that way, but as I said, clueless.
I am clueless really as to how the tariffs are collected. But I would assume that tariffs are calculated based on the country of origin and the purchasing country destination. It shouldn't matter what ports, or how many ports, the products may pass through, as long as the product does not become inventory in one of those ports. So I don't see how panels from China, shipped to Mexico, would be subject to a US tariff simply because a freight forwarder moved them through Los Angeles. I don't think it works that way, but as I said, clueless.
