{"id":35719,"date":"2026-08-07T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35719"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:59:47","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-to-impose-15-pct-tariff-on-polysilicon-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35719","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order to impose 15 pct tariff on polysilicon imports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing minimum import prices and a 15 percent tariff on products made from polysilicon, a key material for solar panels and semiconductors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minimum import prices will be set at 21 U.S. dollars per kilogram for polysilicon and 100 dollars per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers, according to a White House proclamation. The new trade measures are scheduled to take effect on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also directed the U.S. Commerce Department to establish a program to encourage investment in domestic production of raw polysilicon and related downstream products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a White House fact sheet, the measures are aimed at creating &#8220;a level playing field for American producers of these strategic goods,&#8221; encouraging the &#8220;onshoring of these industries,&#8221; and protecting &#8220;U.S. national security and its defense and defense-adjacent industrial base.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the fact sheet, the U.S. share of global polysilicon production capacity declined from 50 percent in 2005 to less than 2 percent in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260807\/84124fb115b64dc4bfbad9064a37ee5e\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260807\/84124fb115b64dc4bfbad9064a37ee5e\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing minimum import prices and a 15 percent tariff on products made from polysilicon, a key material for solar panels and semiconductors. The minimum import prices will be set at 21 U.S. dollars per kilogram for polysilicon and 100 dollars per kilogram for polysilicon ingots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2307,33106,33105,2906,33104,33103,33107,349,3772],"class_list":["post-35719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china-3","tag-import-duty-2","tag-polysilicon","tag-trade-2","tag-trade-barrier","tag-trade-barriers-2","tag-trade-restriction","tag-us-2","tag-wto-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35720,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719\/revisions\/35720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}