Trump signs executive order to impose 15 pct tariff on polysilicon imports
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
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 and wafers, according to a White House proclamation. The new trade measures are scheduled to take effect on Dec. 4.
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.
According to a White House fact sheet, the measures are aimed at creating “a level playing field for American producers of these strategic goods,” encouraging the “onshoring of these industries,” and protecting “U.S. national security and its defense and defense-adjacent industrial base.”
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.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
