US solar tariffs to have limited impact on Chinese producers

Experts: Move may, however, disturb new energy trading stability, green efforts

An extension of solar tariffs by the United States will have a limited impact on China's photovoltaic manufacturers, but will disturb the new energy trading order as well as global efforts to cope with climate change, analysts said.

Tariffs on solar products are expected to do little to boost the US solar product manufacturing sector, said Jiang Yali, a solar analyst at BloombergNEF.

Local production capacity in the country is limited and the US still relies heavily on imports from Chinese photovoltaic manufacturing capacity, Jiang said.