The Biden administration temporarily halted a ban on solar panel component imports from four Asian countries that had sent that energy market's construction into a nosedive after a domestic manufacturer called for an investigation into whether materials suspected of being made in China but shipped from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were circumventing tariffs.
Under a June 5 directive, President Joe Biden said solar modules and cells can be imported from those countries for 24 months and he authorizes use of the federal Defense Production Act to accelerate U.S. manufacture of the solar components, which currently is limited.