Concerns aired over tariffs on Chinese solar products

Instead of doubling tariffs on Chinese solar products, the United States should embrace their affordability, an industry expert says.

David Fickling, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion who covers climate change and clean energy, wrote on Wednesday that the US is still not building enough solar and wind farms, or enough factories for the components, to make the switch work.

"Yet President Joe Biden's justification for doubling tariffs on imported solar to 50 percent is that, to the contrary, the world has too many production lines for green tech," he wrote.