Trump taxes America's solar buildout and calls the price-fixing 'national security'
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He taxed the buyers. He guaranteed the producers. He called it security.
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Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- Donald Trump, China, United States, Hemlock Semiconductor, Corning, Wacker Chemie, Shin-Etsu Handotai, Howard Lutnick, Lin Jian, Oxford Economics
- Themes
- US-China trade, tariff policy, semiconductor supply chains, solar manufacturing, artificial intelligence, national security and trade
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, Informed citizenship