Comments on: Solar products from Mexico and Canada slapped with tariffs for first time /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:32:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Lou /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/#comment-149085 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:32:17 +0000 /?p=108459#comment-149085 In reply to Kelly Pickerel.

Kelly thanks for your reply and link to November article. The CBP promised a decision by 1/17/25 on the Maxeon product held at the border. There is something fishy going on here, needs some good investigative reporting…

]]> By: Kelly Pickerel /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/#comment-149079 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:16:18 +0000 /?p=108459#comment-149079 In reply to Lou.

/2024/11/cbp-continues-to-detain-mexican-assembled-maxeon-solar-panels-at-u-s-border/
Allegedly because of UFLPA searches.

]]> By: Lou /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/#comment-149078 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:24:22 +0000 /?p=108459#comment-149078 Kelsey if you could explore the Maxeon CBP issue and getting them released for import, that is much more important than any potential tariffs. Please look into why the CBP is holding up Maxeon product flow since last summer without any progress or updates. Product with a tariff is better than no product.

]]> By: Brad Abernethy /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/#comment-149054 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:14:46 +0000 /?p=108459#comment-149054 This is not the first time T-rump imposed solar tarrifs on Canada..he did this in 2017, putting two solar panel manufacturers out of business, and forcing the other two to move manufacturing off shore. Ex..Canadian solar, which now only manufactures commercial panels at their Guelph plant.

]]> By: Solarman2 /2025/02/solar-products-from-mexico-and-canada-slapped-with-tariffs-for-first-time/#comment-149040 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:41:01 +0000 /?p=108459#comment-149040 “President Donald Trump announced a new 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China, effective February 4 at 12:01 a.m. ET.”

Welcome to Trump administration 2.0. The narrative has changed some, it seems Mexico is ‘supposed’ to get another 30 days while negotiations continue. What I’d like to see is determining (if) Maxeon is in compliance to allow the CBP to release Maxeon panels from Mexico into the U.S. for solar PV distributers to get the flow of panels to installers and ‘customers’ who want Maxeon, and Maxeon series 7 panels for their installations. That may not last till tomorrow with ‘President Donny Waffle’.

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