The climate cost of America’s infinite tariffs

There are few places where inflation is felt as profoundly these days as tariff rates.A few months ago, President Donald Trump’s election campaign promise of a 10% levy on all US imports seemed shocking. Now we’re looking at a 46% rate on Vietnam, and 145% on China.

This week, Washington went one better: If you’re manufacturing solar panels in Cambodia, you could face a 3,521% impost on any modules sent off to the US. Alongside lower levies imposed on Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, that means about 80% of US panel imports face taxes that make…