Company: ALCE
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-052242
Chunk: 332

Company: Alternus Clean Energy, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 332
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 the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Such tariffs and policies, or any other U.S. or global trade remedies or other trade barriers,
may directly or indirectly affect U.S. or global markets for solar energy and our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

●United States — Potential Tariffs on Processed Critical
Minerals and Derivative Products. On April 22, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce initiated an investigation to determine
the effects on the national security of imports of processed critical minerals, as well as their derivative products, under Section 232
of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The scope of the investigation includes tellurium and other critical minerals used in solar module
manufacturing. In addition, the definition of derivative products covered by the investigation is potentially broad. If this investigation
results in the imposition of tariffs or import restrictions on critical minerals and/or derivative products, it could negatively impact
demand and/or price levels for our solar modules and limit our growth, lead to a reduction in our net sales, or increase our costs, thereby
adversely impacting our operating results.

●United States — Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
on Certain Imported Crystalline Silicon PV Cells and Modules. The United States currently imposes AD/CVDs on certain imported
crystalline silicon PV cells and modules from China and Taiwan. Such AD/CVDs can change over time pursuant to annual administrative reviews
conducted by the USDOC, and a decline in duty rates or USDOC failure to fully enforce U.S. AD/CVD laws could have an adverse impact on
our operating results. In August 2023, the USDOC issued final affirmative circumvention rulings, finding that solar modules completed
in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam using parts and components produced in China circumvent the pre-existing AD/CVD orders on
China. Such duties apply to circumventing imports on or after June 6, 2024, as well as any circumventing imports prior to that date that
were not used or installed on or before December 3, 2024.

●United States — Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
on Certain Traded Solar Products. In April 2024, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, which includes First
Solar, filed a set of AD/CVD petitions with the USDOC and the USITC to impose duties on certain unfairly traded solar products from Cambodia,
Malaysia