Rather than make it more expensive to import cheap solar panels, wouldn't it be better to make the required standards more stringent. That way, if China makes tonnes of high quality cheap solar panels, US consumers can still buy them cheap while being assured of their quality.

Concurrently, the US manufacturers can figure out how to reduce costs to compete.

It just seems to me that artificially increasing prices doesn't do very much except line the pockets of authorities and hurt the average person trying to be more green.