After a dizzying week of escalating rates between the United States and China, the US government issued exemptions over smartphones, semiconductors and other electronics, including one solar panel: solar panel frames.
The rate back and forth began with the announcement of President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ on 2 April, which eventually focused, specifically to China. In a late Friday announcement, the government has issued a list of exclusions of the mutual rates, which were largely focused on consumer electronics. Almost all smartphones, computers or other devices are made in China or Asia, and these exclusions to the rates would provide relief to American technical giants such as Apple.
Included in the tariff exemptions, the HTS -Kop 8541.90 for electronic “parts”, including solar panel frames are regularly categorized under. Solar panel frames are the aluminum or steel framing that completes a solar panel.
No other solar products were specifically called in the electronics exclusion.
