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Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in deployment rather than manufacturing.

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tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.

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  1. Hannah Ritchie Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World
    That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).

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