Peterson Perspectives: Interviews on Current Issues

Trade Talks Episode 5: Solar Tariffs, Clean Energy (and Trump)

09.29.2017 - By [email protected], PIIEPlay

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Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss President Trump’s upcoming choice to grant trade protection to a sliver of the US solar manufacturing industry. The episode describes cleavages within the solar industry, including jobs, and the rarely used US Section 201 trade law being deployed. It chronicles the long history of environmental, economic, and trade policy problems—in the United States, the European Union, and China—behind the solar panel dispute and the potential consequences if Trump imposes a new global safeguard in the form of import tariffs or quotas.

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