Tag: Polysilicon

  • Solar Squeeze

    Commerce is policing a stockpiling ban ahead of the Dec. 4 Section 232 polysilicon tariffs and price floors, putting customs brokers on notice and leaving solar buyers with eight weeks to secure inventory before module costs jump as much as 40 percent. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 Importers racing to bring solar modules and wafers into…

  • Solar Stockpile

    Commerce and Customs have capped polysilicon and solar component imports through Dec. 4 to stop buyers from front-running the Section 232 tariff and minimum import price regime, with new importers limited to 12 kilograms of polysilicon a week and brokers warned they could lose their licenses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. Federal trade officials have moved…

  • Polysilicon Cap

    Commerce moves to shut down a pre-tariff import surge, capping new solar and semiconductor importers at a few kilograms a week and quietly retiring the steel and aluminum inclusions process in the same rule WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2026. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security filed a temporary final rule on Tuesday morning that…

  • Silicon Squeeze

    President Trump’s new Section 232 order imposes a 15 percent tariff and unprecedented price floors on polysilicon imports, and a fight over how and when to collect the duties is already reshaping the solar and semiconductor supply chains WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The Trump administration spent the weekend wrestling with how to implement one of…

  • Polysilicon Tax

    White House imposes 15 percent Section 232 duty and a first-of-its-kind minimum import price program on polysilicon, wafers, cells and solar modules, effective December 4 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff on imported polysilicon and a broad range of its derivatives, pairing the…

  • Polysilicon Hit

    The White House prepares a hybrid price floor and tariff regime on the raw material behind every chip and solar panel, aiming at China’s 93.5 percent grip on global supply while U.S. solar developers brace for higher costs WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The Trump administration is preparing to impose a combination of minimum import prices…