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Shine light on tariffs

Tue., Oct. 3, 2017

So the two major domestic solar panel companies, owned by foreign interests, want to save 9,000 American jobs by having the administration impose tariffs on imported panels, perhaps doubling the price and crippling the growing solar energy program and threatening the jobs of 250,000 workers now employed in installation and operation.

I have two questions: Is it possible that the fossil fuel concerns have some skin in this game, and where is similar protection for t-shirts and flip-flops?

Ted Wert

Sagle

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