Democrats, Republicans aim to block Biden admin's action protecting Chinese solar companies

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are working to pass time-sensitive legislation that would roll back a rule allowing Chinese solar panel makers to skirt U.S. trade laws.

The move came after the Commerce Department said months earlier it would investigate whether Chinese manufacturers were routing solar panels through countries in Southeast Asia to avoid U.S. tariffs. And in December published its preliminary findings which showed four large solar companies had routed products through Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam to circumvent duties. Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"Even after the U.S. Department of Commerce determined in an investigation that solar panels imported from Southeast Asian countries were circumventing tariffs on Chinese-made solar components, the Biden Administration continued to put American manufacturers last by keeping in place a two-year tariff exemption for these solar panels," Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital.