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U.S. Solar Group Pushes Back Against China’s Offshore Plants

  • Unnamed U.S. firms say Southeast Asia plants avoid tariffs
  • Chinese firms dominate the manufacture of solar panels
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U.S. solar manufacturers have filed petitions requesting federal investigations into Chinese firms circumventing tariffs by manufacturing in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

The group -- which hasn’t identified its member companies -- filed the petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to Wiley Rein LLP, a Washington D.C. law firm advising the companies.