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Solar Finds Unexpected Champion With Ad by Trump’s Pal Hannity

published Oct 18, 2017, 4:35:55 PM, by Christopher Martin and Brian Eckhouse

(Bloomberg) —The U.S. solar industry has enlisted one of President Donald Trump’s best media friends for a campaign against import tariffs: Sean Hannity.

Hannity voiced an advertisement asserting that tariffs on solar imports would threaten jobs in the U.S. The spot gained visibility after the Solar Energy Industries Association trade group tweeted it Tuesday.

In the ad, Hannity says that “American solar can compete just fine on its own.” That’s counter to the contention of Suniva Inc., a bankrupt solar manufacturer that last month convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission that cheap foreign imports had harmed it. Trump, a regular guest on Hannity’s prime-time Fox News program, has until mid-January to decide whether to impose tariffs. A representative for Hannity didn’t return calls and emails Wednesday.

To contact the reporters on this story: Christopher Martin in New York at cmartin11@bloomberg.net ;Brian Eckhouse in New York at beckhouse@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net Will Wade, Joe Ryan

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