{"id":26518,"date":"2026-08-07T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:56:43","slug":"trump-unveils-trade-actions-to-compete-with-china-on-solar-and-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=26518","title":{"rendered":"Trump unveils trade actions to compete with China on solar and chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday (Aug 7) imposed a series of price floors and a 15 per cent tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used in semiconductors and solar panels that is primarily produced by China.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s proclamation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 is aimed at supporting domestic chip and solar supply chains needed to compete with Beijing on artificial intelligence and energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan of action in this proclamation will, among other things, help ensure the commercial viability of United States production of polysilicon and its derivatives that is necessary to meet United States economic and national security requirements,&#8221; the order said.<\/p>\n<p>Polysilicon, an ultra-pure form of silicon, sits at the start of the semiconductor and solar manufacturing supply chains. Manufacturers turn silicon wafers into solar cells and then assemble those into panels used in solar projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday (Aug 7) imposed a series of price floors and a 15 per cent tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used in semiconductors and solar panels that is primarily produced by China. US President Donald Trump&#8217;s proclamation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 is aimed at supporting domestic chip and solar supply chains needed to compete with Beijing on artificial intelligence and energy. &#8220;The plan of action in this proclamation will, among other things, help ensure the commercial viability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26519,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions\/26519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}