The US government announced Monday that it intends to proceed with enforcement Additional customs duties of up to 3,521% in photovoltaic frames imported from Southeast Asia, to compensate for the support of their production in various states that are being accused of China and their dumping in the US market.

Duties relate to Companies installed in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, The International Trade Service (ITA), which is subject to the Ministry of Commerce, noted.

Another ministry service, the International Commerce Committee (ITC), is now called upon to identify, by June 2, if the subsidies to these companies had copy of their US competitors and to proceed -or not -to the imposition of ITA duties.

According to research findings that began to be carried out in April 2024, the companies of each of these countries “received subsidies from the Chinese government”. This is the “first” case where one country’s state aid is found in other companies, “transnational”, ITA said in its statement.

On average, it proposes duties that will range from 34.41% to the photovoltaic frames from Malaysia to 651.85% for them from Cambodia.

However, at least two companies in Cambodia, Hounen Solar and Solar Long PV-Tech are at risk of seeing 3,521%customs duties, thirty-folds and now from the price of their products.

Overall, they duties will be for imported products worth $ 12 billion introduced in 2023, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

If they actually apply, will be added to 10% base duties imposed by President Donald Trump on April 2nd to most products imported into the US.

They will also be added to the so -called “reciprocal” duties, announced on the same day and suspended for 90 days a week later. In the case of Vietnam, for example, this would mean additional customs duties of 38%.

The research began in April 2023, at a request by an alliance of US solar energy companies, to which the largest are integrated. This alliance has complained that competitors in the four Southeast Asia countries are in fact but subsidiaries of Chinese companies and are subsidized by Beijing.