WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. solar industry group fighting a rival coalition's request for steep import duties on solar cells and modules made in China released a report on Monday warning more than 60,000 U.S. jobs could be lost if duties are imposed.
"We cannot allow one company's anti-China crusade to threaten the U.S. solar industry and tens of thousands of American jobs," Jigar Shah, president of the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE), said in a statement on the report it commissioned from The Brattle Group, an economics consulting firm.
CASE says its represents companies responsible for 97 to 98 percent of U.S. solar industry jobs, which it defines to include residential and commercial installation of solar panels as well as domestic manufacturing.