Will a trade fight with China sabotage the U.S. solar industry? That may be up to Trump.
“It is hard to think of a free trade issue that is more fundamental or more clearly shows the benefits of free trade and the enormous cost to the economy and consumers of heavy tariffs,” said Eli Lehrer, president of the R Street Institute, a free market think tank. His group has joined the conservative advocacy groups American Legislative Exchange Council and Heritage Foundation — both longtime irritants of the solar industry — in lobbying to protect it from the kind of levies threatened.
