“While there are fewer than 1,000 jobs in U.S. panel manufacturing, some 260,000 jobs rely on access to imported panels.”
Today those 260,000 jobs are at risk because of a ruling by President Trump. The president — to show he is serious about his “America First” trade policy —imposed steep new tariffs on imported solar panels from China and on washing machines from South Korea.“Solar tariffs would be another destructive exercise that benefits a handful of Suniva and SolarWorld [panel manufactures] investors at the expense of everyone else — including the rest of the solar industry. This is protectionism at its worst.”
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