Earlier in August, Maxeon, a subsidiary of TCL Zhonghuan Holdings, disclosed in its semi-annual report for 2025 that the company had filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) in mid-July . Accusing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of obstructing its solar " According to a recent report by Solar Power World, CIT was scheduled to announce the latest developments in the case in mid-October this year, but due to the shutdown of the U.S. government, the progress of the case was delayed, and no new information has been released since then .
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March this year, CBP rejected Maxeon's previous protest against its withholding of PV module products. "Although Maxeon has provided thousands of pages of documents to prove its full compliance, CBP has only given a'general 'conclusion that the documents submitted by Maxeon'appear' to be inadequate,"
the media said in a recent report.
Earlier in April, Maxeon also disclosed that several months after CBP's Office of Adjudication and Regulation ( "OR & R") approached CBP about the substance of its protest, OR & R refused to make the ruling public. It subsequently stated that the protest did not meet the criteria for further review and returned the case to the Centre for Electronic Excellence and Expertise ( "CEE"). CEE subsequently nullified the company's protest. In
response, when the semi-annual report was released in August this year, Maxeon CEO George Guo (Guo Aiping) revealed: "We continue to raise objections to the groundless decision of CBP." On July 15, it filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), alleging that CBP's actions were ultra vires, lacked due process, and misquoted the so-called relevant regulations, which led to some Maxeon solar panels being wrongly banned from the U.S. market. "We remain hopeful that the court will correct this misconduct, which has severely impacted our business for more than a year." Affected
by the incident, Maxeon's performance has experienced a serious decline. In the first half of this year, Maxon achieved revenue of $39.041 million, down 89.5% from the same period last year, and a net loss of $65.458 million ; Shipments were only 153.2MW , down 84
% year on year. factories in Korea and Malaysia and will be shipped to its module factory in Georgia, USA.
In October, Hanwha confirmed to the media that the US Customs had released the seizure of photovoltaic cells. However, affected by the detention incident, a spokesman for Hanwha's American branch disclosed in early November that 1000 employees in the Georgia component factory were either forced to rest or shorten their working hours ; In addition, 300 outsourced workers were laid off at the Dalton and Cartersville plants northwest of Atlanta, and the company will not renew any of its labor assignments for now.
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