Trump presses U.S. companies to close China operations

Fast Ejendom Danmark A/S

23/08/2019 16:02

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said
on Friday he was ordering U.S. companies to look at ways to
close their operations in China and make more of their products
in the United States instead, a rhetorical strike at Beijing as
trade tensions mounted.
    Trump cannot compel U.S. companies to abandon China and he
gave no detail on how he might proceed with any such order,
although he said he would be offering a response later on Friday
to tariffs on U.S. products announced by China earlier in the
day. 
    "Our great American companies are hereby ordered to
immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including
bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the
USA," Trump said on Twitter. "We don't need China and, frankly,
would be far better off without them."

 (Reporting by Makini Brice and David Shepardson; Editing by Tim
Ahmann)
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