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Lamar Alexander: “If your goal is to increase capacity in the United States, how big a tariff do you have to have in order to make it…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2018
If your goal is to increase capacity in the United States, how big a tariff do you have to have in order to make it profitable for companies in the United States to pay for the increased electricity?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the necessary tariff to boost U.S. aluminum production.

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