FIRST ON FOX: Ohio’s two Republican senators say that Chinese companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes through a Biden-era tariff pause that has since been declared unlawful. Now, they’re demanding that the Department of Homeland Security send the bill to China.In 2022, the Biden administration issued a temporary pause on tariffs for solar panels originating in Southeast Asia, many of which contained components manufactured by Chinese corporations.The United States Court of International Trade, in August 2025, found the law used by the Biden administration to initiate the pause could not be applied to solar panels, thus making it unlawful."China has a strategy.
They have state-subsidized business sectors, solar panels being one of them, in which they want to flood the global market, put everyone out of business, and then you're completely reliant on China for generation of energy that is connected to your electric grid, which can create instability around the globe," Sen.Jon Husted told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday.
"They want dominance.They want to weaken America.
They want to weaken the rest of the world by subsidizing these solar companies."CHAD WOLF: AMERICA CANNOT IGNORE CHINA’S ECONOMIC ATTACK ON US INDUSTRYHusted was appointed to be the next Ohio senator in 2025 to replace now Vice President JD Vance. (Getty Images)Husted and fellow Ohio Sen.Bernie Moreno, in a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security in May, argue that Chinese solar companies should be forced to pay back the import duties they avoided under the Biden administration's now-vacated tariff pause."This moratorium served as a unilateral tariff giveaway that benefited Chinese solar manufacturers operating through third-country routes to circumvent existing anti-dumping duty orders and rip the American economy out of billions of dollars," the senators wrote.
"The total unpaid duties represent billions of dollars owed to the U.S.Treasury — the vast m...