China’s new tariffs on American liquefied natural gas will hurt the industry, but ultimately may only hinder rather than halt the progress of a growing industry that is a key plank of the Trump administration’s “energy dominance agenda.”

China has represented the best opportunity for the U.S. to flood the world with cheap liquefied natural gas, known as LNG, because it is the largest growth market as the country seeks to wean off its heavy use of coal that harms air quality.