EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) are demanding an investigation into whether Chinese solar companies under investigation for illegally circumventing U.S. trade law helped power a Chinese surveillance balloon before it was shot down, according to a letter sent to Defense…
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Bill Posey are demanding an investigation into whether Chinese solar companies under investigation for illegally circumventing U.S. trade law helped power a Chinese surveillance balloon before it was shot down, according to a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo that was obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The Biden administration confirmed in late January that a Chinese spy balloon was traversing the United States before it was downed by a heat-seeking missile from an F-22 fighter jet on Feb. 4, sending its payload tumbling into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. In the letter, Scott and Posey ask if the administration has determined whether the panels that helped operate the balloon were manufactured by a company with known trade violations and whether the Pentagon has panels in use by the same company.
The push to maintain U.S. tariffs on solar panels linked to China has faced opposition from a large segment of the solar industry, including developers who rely on imported cells and modules to assemble their projects at scale. Industry lobby groups have argued that even a possibility of tariffs puts Biden’s climate goals in jeopardy.
“For decades, Democrat and Republican administrations alike have refused to wade into the Department of Commerce’s independent fact-finding and reasoned decision-making,” Scott and Posey write. “Instead of supporting robust enforcement of U.S. trade laws, the emergency declaration gives Chinese manufacturers a free pass.”
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