It's a complaint with bipartisan support on fairly cheap parts for solar panels made overseas.

The import tax can now be a hefty one.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

A 3,500 percent tariff is an import duty 35 times higher than the item itself.

That's the high end of tariffs just announced on key components for solar panels imported from some Southeast Asian countries. Here's Marketplace's Nova Saffo.

The Commerce Department announced new tariffs after a year-long illegal dumping investigation dating back to the Biden administration.

If finalized, they'd be imposed on solar cells, usually a few inches in size, which are

assembled into panels, and those are the things that go on the roofs of people's homes,

for example.

American manufacturers filed a complaint that China was circumventing previous tariffs

by producing cells in

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, and then importing them into the U.S. below cost.

It is this kind of circumvention of trade restrictions that the Trump administration has cited

as a reason we need global tariffs. But with the new import duties, American solar panel

manufacturers could face higher prices for sales, making their panels more expensive. I'm Novosafo for

Marketplace. Now to D.HL, the package delivery service that says it's overburdened by new U.S.

rules at the border. The Germany-based firm has stopped delivering boxes to U.S. consumers if what's in the box is worth more than $800.

Business customers will still get shipments. Marketplaces Stephanie Hughes has that.

The expanded customs requirements, D.HL says it's dealing with, mean a lot more paperwork and documentation,

according to Bloomberg analyst Lee Klascoe. And that, he says, slows things down. He compares

it to more people having to go through the slow lane at airport security.

You've got to take your shoes off. You've got to take your liquids out. That's kind of what's

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