The last round of the trade war decimated U.S. polysilicon, and Hemlock Semiconductor is calling on Trump to address this in the Section 201 remedy.There are often unintended consequences to trade wars, and there is a large, shuttered polysilicon factory in the U.S. state of Tennessee that serves as evidence of this. In 2013 China imposed steep import duties on U.S. polysilicon in retaliation for the imposition of tariffs on Chinese PV cells in 2012, which effectively shut off U.S. polysilicon makers from the world's largest market for their product.
Among the hardest hit of polysilicon makers was Hemlock Semiconductor. The company was in the process of completing a $1.2 billion plant in ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...