The news was not entirely unexpected, but last week’s ruling that U.S. solar manufacturers have been harmed by cheap imports has opened the door to new tariffs and prompted warnings that job losses and higher prices will follow.

国际贸易委员会（ITC）一致投票支持Suniva和Solarworld Americas的申请，开始了一个过程，该过程将对唐纳德特朗普总统的新关税和最低模块价格进行最终决定。下一步是10月3日的听证会，其中ITC重量潜在的补救措施。11月13日截止日期，向特朗普发送建议。总统将有60天接受或修改ITC的建议。

与此同时，一个行业贸易集团的警告是由于“深受缺陷的”贸易案件可能导致两家破产公司所带来的严重后果，这是由两家破产公司提供的美国贸易法。

In a written statement following the September 22 decision, Abigail Ross Hopper, the president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said that Suniva and SolarWorld, both of which have non-U.S. owners, had only themselves to blame for their business problems.

“ITC的决定对近9,000名美国太阳能公司和26万美国人雇用的决定令人失望，”她说。“外国公司带来业务失败的公司正在努力利用美国贸易法，以获得他们的糟糕投资救助。”SEIA争辩说，多达88,000名美国工作可能会受到威胁。

Suniva, on the other hand, said the question was whether the U.S. would continue to have the capability of manufacturing solar panels.

“We brought this action because the U.S. solar manufacturing industry finds itself at the precipice of extinction at the hands of foreign market overcapacity,” the Georgia-based company said in a statement. “It will be in President Trump’s hands to decide whether America will continue to have the capability to manufacture this energy source.”

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美国希望它能提供一个有说服力的案例the ITC and the president that new tariffs on solar cells and modules are not in the country’s best interests.

“We expect to be front and center in the ITC remedy process, and in the administration’s consideration of this deeply flawed case,” Hopper’s statement said.

纽约时报与若干分析师签订了若干分析师，他说关税将在美国恢复太阳能模块制造，并迅速外国生产商开放他们在这里的工厂或扩大工厂。

但反应大多是消极的。根据一份报告格林科媒体。南方南方团结清洁能源执行董事斯蒂芬史密斯表示，该地区的公用事业公司计划增加4000多个太阳能，投资超过40亿美元。

“所有这些工作，财产价值观和清洁能源机会现在达到了今天的决定，”他告诉Greentech Media。

许多兴趣团体排列在包括来自佐治亚州和堪萨斯州的共和党参议员，包括共和党参议员，包括共和党参议员。美国立法交流委员会是促进国家立法者，国家纳税人联盟和保守遗产基金会的保守政策的幕后集团也是批评者。

主要决定将由其承诺将“美国第一”的总统提出，并将煤炭行业恢复到突出地位，并有一些行业内部内部人员预测新关税是一个肯定的事情。

“[特朗普]很容易奖励他的煤炭行业的伙伴，他们真正希望看到高价太阳能电池板在网格上与煤炭竞争，”Clark Packard，政策分析师和贸易律师与保守的智库R街上研究关税的研究所告诉政客。“He may just want to stick it to people — your coastal elites who never would have voted for him who are more likely to use solar panels. He’s looking for any circumstance to impose tariffs, it doesn’t seem he cares what they are.”