CIT Stays Case Challenging Collection of Section 201 Duties on Bifacial Solar Panels
The Court of International Trade in an Oct. 21 order granted a consent motion to stay in a case brought by Waaree Energies and ISS Global Forwarding Texas challenging CBP's collection of excess safeguard duties on solar cell imports, given…
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CIT's order finding unlawful the revocation of a tariff exclusion for bifacial solar panels (Waaree Energies v. United States, CIT #22-00296). The case is stayed pending resolution of Solar Energy Industries Association, et al. v. United States at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In the SEIA case, the trade court found the proclamation revoking the bifacial solar panel tariff exclusion to be illegal since the law permits only trade liberalizing alterations to the existing safeguard measures (see 2111160032). The appeal is proceeding at the Federal Circuit.