Energy wars: Tariff trouble
From Greentech Media, November 21, 2017:
“Acting on solar could have unintended consequences, however. Bloomberg reports that U.S. duties on imported solar equipment ‘would almost certainly’ prompt retaliation from China, South Korea and other nations at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
China could choose to impose tariffs on exports like Wisconsin cheese and Kentucky bourbon, ‘creating natural opponents to the tariffs in Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan,’ said Clark Packard, a trade policy analyst for the Washington free-market think tank R Street Institute.
China has already imposed punitive import duties of up to 57 percent on certain U.S. polysilicon manufacturers in response to 2012 anti-dumping and countervailing duties.