A ruling by the ITC (International Trade commission) which will affect business done in the U.S. and enforced by our government may well cost many American jobs and decimate the nascent solar industry by doubling or trebling costs and destroying the market.


"The ITC's decision is disappointing for nearly 9,000 U.S. solar companies and the 260,000 Americans they employ. Foreign-owned companies that brought business failures on themselves are attempting to exploit American trade laws to gain a bailout for their bad investments," Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said in a news release. "Analysts say Suniva's remedy proposal will double the price of solar, destroy two-thirds of demand, erode billions of dollars in investment and unnecessarily force 88,000 Americans to lose their jobs in 2018."

https://www.upi.com/Energy-News/2017/09 ... _medium=22

This was the kind of meddling and sovereignty destroying ceding of authority that opponents of the TPP sought to end. So U.S. law is used by foreign owned companies in an International Court and the enforcement (and costs thereof) are to be borne by the U.S. (us - you and me... we pay for that apparatus). Pretty tangled web. Now if the ITC has found damages and those companies had found U.S. law to have "caused" those damages then the U.S. (taxpayer) could be sued for those damages in the ITC.

Fun stuff, this Globalism, eh?

Total bullshit is what it is.