Trump’s trade war is ‘bad news’ for US energy

Published July 24, 2018 4:00am ET



President Trump’s trade agenda could be putting the U.S. energy economy on the road to ruin from the risk of an all-out trade war with China and Europe.

The tariffs on steel and aluminum that Trump put in place “hits energy producers in two ways,” said Scott Lincicome, an international trade attorney at the Libertarian Cato Institute.

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