Friday, March 29, 2024

Donald Trump presses U.S. companies to close China operations

President Donald Trump said Friday that he was ordering U.S. companies to look for ways to close their China operations and make more of their products in the United States, a rhetorical attack in Beijing as tensions widened Commercial.

Trump cannot legally force U.S. companies to leave China immediately and gave no details on how he could proceed with such an order, although he said he would offer a later Friday response to tariffs on U.S. products announced by China earlier in the day.

The US dollar rose sharply against the Chinese yuan and U.S. stock markets fell on Trump’s last salvo against China.

“At present, our large U.S. companies are ordered to immediately begin looking for an alternative to China, including bringing their companies to CASA and making their products in the United States,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We don’t need China and, frankly, we’d be much better off without them.”

For many products sold in the United States, there are few alternatives to Chinese production, and the change in production for the major products produced there could take years and be expensive.

Last week, Trump withdrew his September 1 deadline for 10% tariffs on remaining Chinese imports, which delayed tariffs on cell phones, laptops, and other consumer goods.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office delayed tariffs on more than half of the $300 billion in Chinese-made products, indicating to companies that the delay covered product categories where China supplies more than 75% total U.S. imports.

source: reuters

Teodora Torrendo
Teodora Torrendohttps://www.ccdiscovery.com
Teodora Torrendo is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.

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