[Forced by helplessness, the United States to the four Southeast Asian countries photovoltaic "green light", US media: will be beneficial to China]
Recently, Biden issued a statement to give the photovoltaic modules of four Southeast Asian countries a "green light" and implement tax exemptions for them in the next two years, which may be beneficial to China.
According to the Observer Network, on these two days, IN order to solve the domestic energy shortage, US President Biden issued a special statement saying that in the next two years, the United States will allow photovoltaic modules and other products from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, four Southeast Asian countries, to be exempted from import tariffs.
However, this tax exemption does not include Chinese mainland and Taiwan. The New York Times immediately analyzed the US government's decision, saying that this decision was actually beneficial to China. The Reason for this conclusion is that the New York Times has to mention an incident that occurred in March this year.
It is understood that in March this year, California-based manufacturer Auxin Solar submitted a petition to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in which it asked the U.S. government to investigate Chinese photovoltaic companies to circumvent U.S. tariffs through the Southeast Asian market. Upon receiving this news, the U.S. Department of Commerce immediately began to investigate the matter.
Since then, because of the investigation of this matter, it has caused many adverse effects on the domestic photovoltaic industry in the United States, resulting in more than 300 photovoltaic projects being postponed or even canceled in the short term, in addition to hundreds of photovoltaic companies preparing to lay off employees. Abigail Ross Hopper, ceo of the Photovoltaic Industry Association of America, said the incident left the U.S. PV market "in chaos" and the entire industry paralyzed.
This matter has also become a shadow of the US photovoltaic industry. Just because of the company's petition, the U.S. government has gone so far in its investigation that it is ridiculous to say. Of course, this is also something that the US government has always been keen on, indiscriminately only wanting to grab China's "little braids".
After such a big battle, it is undoubtedly equivalent to confirming the speculation that China is using the Southeast Asian market to evade US tariffs. Therefore, the US media will analyze that after the United States exempted the photovoltaic in the four Southeast Asian countries, it is equivalent to giving China more "opportunities" for photovoltaics, and the investigation can only be interrupted.
However, these things done by the United States, from the beginning to the end, are just "moving themselves." Let's not talk about whether it can have much impact on China, but the United States itself has been repulsed first. The phrase that harming others and ultimately harming oneself has been well confirmed in the United States.
Although the United States is extremely reluctant to make this decision, it is also forced to do so. First of all, because of the impact of the Conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the Western energy crisis has intensified, and the United States has now entered a state of energy emergency. There may also be a risk of power outages, and in the future to deal with this crisis, the US government must import a large number of photovoltaic modules and cells and other products in case of emergency.
Secondly, the United States has been relying on foreign imports in recent years, initially imported from the Chinese market, but the United States has punitively imposed tariffs on China in order to deal with China. Since then, the United States has mainly relied on Southeast Asia for imported photovoltaic modules. It is understood that 3/4 of the photovoltaic modules imported by the United States in recent years are from Southeast Asia.
Of course, this situation has also had a serious impact on the photovoltaic manufacturers in the United States, resulting in these domestic manufacturers in the United States being very dissatisfied, so they will take the opportunity to throw dirty water on China. However, all this done by the United States can not shake China's position in the photovoltaic industry chain.
It is understood that at present, China has become the world's largest photovoltaic market, but also the world's most important exporter of photovoltaic products, the United States these small actions are only harming their own interests, in the face of such accidents, forced to "open the green light".
