Tariffs or not, Chinese firms push new energy exports at nation's largest trade fair

GUANGZHOU - China's green technology companies gathered this week at the country's biggest trade fair to chase new export deals, even as the industry finds itself in the crosshairs of American and European leaders who complain that an oversupply of cheap Chinese goods is hurting their producers. Shiny electric vehicles (EVs), sheets of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries of all shapes and sizes were among their wares lining the halls of the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, in a space 12 times the size of the Singapore Expo. This spring edition of the biannual fair runs from April 15 to May…