The President just instituted a 30% tariff on imported solar panels and 50% on washers. So anyone who is considering purchasing solar for their camper may want to look at getting soon because the prices will certainly go up substantially soon as most inexpensive solar is imported right now.
#1
Posted 23 January 2018 - 03:49 AM
#2
Posted 24 January 2018 - 02:57 AM
I thought about this today too. We've got our current solar setup, but I'm designing a build for our Sprinter that will take two panels. I'm disappointed to learn they will now go up 30%+ and to hear there are 23k lost jobs in the industry.
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#3
Posted 24 January 2018 - 07:39 PM
So let me get this straight.
We put a tariff on foreign items (panels in this case)
to I guess punish/level the trade field,but guess
who has to pay for it. Hummm.
Frank
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#4
Posted 25 January 2018 - 03:31 PM
If the American-made panels will now be exactly the same price as the overseas ones, then the customer can still shop for the best product. However, if the 30% tariff has now priced the same quality panels much higher, then consumers will buy the American panel for the most part.
If the overseas panels are now much costlier, I would like to know who bought how much stock in what American solar panel companies and when...ya know what I mean?
1988 Ford F-250 HD Lariat 4x4 8 Ft. bed
1976 Alaskan 8 Ft. CO camper
#5
Posted 25 January 2018 - 05:00 PM
The funny thing is that two of the companies that were lobbying for this are German (SolarWorld) and Chinese (Suniva) owned but happen to manufacture in the US. I am also not convinced that he US manufactured panels are necessarily any better quality than foreign manufactured panels. This will also likely lead to an across the board increase in cost - if the cost of imports increases, the domestic manufacturers will still try to charge a premium for their panels, meaning across the board increase. However it likely won't effect the small scale sellers on ebay and the like who would be well under the 2.5GW cap.
Edited by rando, 25 January 2018 - 05:07 PM.
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#6
Posted 25 January 2018 - 06:50 PM
I've been considering getting an additional panel for a while. Might have to bite the bullet now.
Bother, I forget who and where link was recently posted for some good priced panels.
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#7
Posted 25 January 2018 - 08:09 PM
On-line price for Solar Cynergy 120 W bendable solar panels from Solar Blvd went from $119 yesterday to $129 today.
Roughly a 10% increase. They showed 74 panels in stock yesterday and now show 72 panels in stock.
Craig
Edited by ckent323, 25 January 2018 - 08:11 PM.
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#8
Posted 25 January 2018 - 08:40 PM
Yikes.
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#9
Posted 25 January 2018 - 09:10 PM
I was reading that big energy (non-solar/wind) was also behind this. Something about driving the price of foreign solar panels/wind renewable energy products up so that US made RE products will have time to gear up and take over the market, then (here is the catch) after 3 years the tariffs will end and renewable energy will cost more than our subsidized nonrenewable energy so we can keep using that and we can return to the glories of the coal/oil using past! Or as a worse case situation, big energy will have three years to make a killing. Does this sound plausible?
Smoke
Edited by Smokecreek1, 25 January 2018 - 09:12 PM.
#10
Posted 25 January 2018 - 09:50 PM
"Follow The Money"
Smoke....I'd say those considerations are right on the money. Remember, the new corporate tax rate is permanent while the teensy-weensy tax break(s) you may or may not get will go away in a few years.
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