{"id":329453,"date":"2024-05-18T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329453"},"modified":"2024-05-18T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:36:19","slug":"biden-china-tariffs-infuriate-climate-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329453","title":{"rendered":"Biden China Tariffs Infuriate Climate Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Joe Biden signs executive orders on health care in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28. Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change news seems to be taking the Chinese line on the tariff issue \u2013 but who expected anything different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Days after climate talks, US slaps tariffs on Chinese EVs and solar panels <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published on 15\/05\/2024, 5:21pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The measures are designed to increase the cost of Chinese goods needed for the energy transition \u2013 and could therefore slow the US shift away from fossil fuels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Lo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five days after seemingly cordial US-China climate talks, US President Joe Biden has announced he will increase US tariffs on US tariffs<\/strong>, electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries to run them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Wednesday and Thursday, China\u2019s new top climate diplomat Liu Zhenmin travelled to Washington DC for two days of talks with his US counterpart John Podesta, also fresh in the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They discussed<\/a> co-operation on climate issues, including plans for both sides to ramp up renewables, and vowed to \u201cintensify technical and policy exchanges\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the day after, with Liu still in the country, the US State Department briefed<\/a> journalists that Podesta had told Liu that China was producing too many solar panels and lithium-ion EV batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then on Tuesday,<\/strong> the White House increased tariffs on Chinese EVs, lithium-ion batteries and solar panels, accusing the Chinese government of \u201cunfair, non-market practices\u201d and \u201cflooding global markets with artificially low-priced exports\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/05\/15\/days-after-climate-talks-us-slaps-tariffs-on-chinese-evs-and-solar-panels\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of China\u2019s understandable confusion on where they stand with the Bidens and the US renewable industry, I doubt these tariffs will improve the circumstances of US solar manufacturers. There are too many barriers for US solar manufacturers to be globally competitive, such as the USA\u2019s increasingly expensive energy and tough environmental regulations, and the door is still open to imports from other nations with lower manufacturing costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden has threatened to extend the tariffs if he becomes convinced Chinese manufacturers are circumventing his tariffs by transshipping solar panels through other nations. I\u2019m sure those other nations being threatened with tariffs will be keen to persuade President Biden that nothing untoward is happening. Perhaps President Biden should send Hunter on a fact finding mission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change news seems to be taking the Chinese line on the tariff issue \u2013 but who expected anything different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":329455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691828683,691818772,691828682],"class_list":["post-329453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-solar-panels","tag-u-s-president-joe-biden","tag-us-tariffs","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0acadd2ac-6b06-4fe2-900b-a9b7f3634de1.jpg?fit=2400%2C1629&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1nHL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":277979,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277979","url_meta":{"origin":329453,"position":0},"title":"The Conversation: Today\u2019s International Free Trade Rules are Not Suited for the Climate Crisis","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Climate subsidies like the Biden Inflation Reduction Act violated international free trade rules. 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