US sets more tariffs on wind towers from China, Vietnam

President Barack Obama’s administration says it intends to apply tariffs as high as 72.69% on imports of utility-scale steel wind towers from China and up to 59.91% for those from Vietnam, further ratcheting bilateral clean energy trade tensions.

The Commerce Department ’s preliminary decision comes after two decisions in May that involved China: it set tariffs up to 26% on wind towers to offset government subsidies, and others between 31% and 250% on certain solar product imports.

China responded by launching its own probes into US federal and state incentives for the renewable energy supply chain, and says it will defend the interests of its solar and wind tower industries at the World Trade Organization against unfair US competition. China is the second largest US trading…

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