Sentences with phrase «domestic content requirements»

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today issued final Buy America policy guidance advising transit agencies and transit vehicle manufacturers how to implement a phased increase in domestic content requirements for transit rolling stock procurements from 60 percent to more than 70 percent by the year 2020.

Ontario's inclusion of domestic content requirements in its Green Energy Act — since revised as a result of a successful World Trade Organization challenge — explicitly sought to not just deliver clean energy electrons, but to build up its renewable energy manufacturing sector.

'' Determining how meaningful this proposal is, or any other domestic content requirement, depends very much on the cost of non-compliance, which at this point remains trivial,» he said.

In a new report prepared for the Embassy of Canada, The Trade Partnership examines the effects of U.S. domestic content requirements on the U.S. - Canada economic partnership.

This is especially true with respect to the laws governing domestic content requirements and Rules of Origin, and is applicable to any national exporter seeking to enter the U.S. market.

Under the FTA final policy guidance, the Buy America domestic content requirements for transit rolling stock procurements for railcars and buses will be based on the scheduled delivery date of the first production vehicle.

They include removing domestic content requirements for solar and wind energy projects, hiking the aviation fuel tax from 2.7 cents a litre to 6.7 cents over four years and freezing MPP salaries until the deficit is eliminated.

The joint venture also aims to save building owners time, effort and money by procuring solar (PV) panels compliant with the new domestic content requirements set out by Ontario's Feed - in Tariff (FIT).

Japan is complaining to the WTO that Canadian measures that mandate domestic content requirements for renewable energy generation equipment are inconsistent with WTO rules because they discriminate against equipment produced outside of Ontario and also represent a subsidy prohibited by the WTO.

The FIT contract contains domestic content requirements that are intended to help foster investment, green manufacturing, construction, and installation jobs in Ontario.

Primarily Japan's complaint hits Canada's domestic content requirements in its «feed - in tariff» (FIT) program for Ontario, which requires that the renewable energy equipment, such as solar panels, wind turbines, biomass, and waterpower generation equipment, be produced in Ontario in whole or in part.

Appeal to overturn U.S. complaint that India's domestic content requirement for its solar power sector is discriminatory rejected by the WTO, as expected.

Last September, the Japanese government filed a complaint against the domestic content requirements with the World Trade Organization.

The U.S. is calling for an 85 percent rule of origin for tariff - free treatment (up from 62.5 percent) with a 50 percent «domestic content requirement» meaning that half the content must originate in the economy where the final product is sold.

When I asked who Calisolar's major cell customer might be to address the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) FIT (Feed - in Tariff) Program's domestic content requirements, ClearSky Advisors Co-Founder Tim Wohlgemut said:

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) issued the tender for the development of the Ananthapuramu solar park under the Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) category of the National Solar Mission.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India's 100 MW solar PV auction in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, issued under the domestic content requirement category, sees Adani and Azure Power win 50 MW each.

And the domestic content requirements can be very specific (and somewhat ridiculous).

According to a provincial government backgrounder on FIT, the domestic content requirements are intended to support «new green jobs in Ontario»:

Domestic content requirements for both FIT and microFIT projects are intended to help support the creation of 50,000 new green jobs in Ontario.