Trump Orders American Companies to 'Start Looking for an Alternative to China'
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON Hours after Beijing said it would increase tariffs on American goods in response to President Trumps latest round of Chinese levies, the president ordered companies in the United States to stop doing business with China and warned of additional retaliation.
In a series of angry Twitter posts, Mr. Trump said Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing our companies HOME and making your products in the USA.
The president also said he was ordering the United States Postal Service and private American companies like FedEx, Amazon and UPS to search packages from China for the opioid Fentanyl and refuse delivery.
We dont need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them, Mr. Trump said on Twitter. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP.
It was not yet clear on Friday how Mr. Trump planned to carry out his demands, including ordering companies to begin seeking alternatives to China. Mr. Trump has routinely urged American companies to stop doing business in China and has viewed his tariffs as a way to prod them to move production. While some companies have begun looking for other places to locate their supply chains, including Vietnam, many businesses particularly smaller ones say such a move is costly, time-consuming and could put them out of business.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/business/china-tariffs-trump.html
Eugene
(61,592 posts)especially without Congress?
P.S. What happens if the companies look at the alternatives and determine they are not feasible?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Is not a Presidential power. He is a fucking idiot and the world is about to see just how big a fool he really is.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)Saying he shouldn't be limited to two terms, telling free-market companies how to run their businesses (as if he's a sterling example), telling other countries what to do to please him, hanging out with other autocrats and disparaging elected officials -- he's drunk with power. And no one will stand up to him. The courts have, on occasion, but he's been quickly filling them with his unqualified but loyal lackeys.
And the SCOTUS? I just home RBG has a food-tester on staff.
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)Over the decades since WWII congress has enacted a series of 'national emergency' laws that have ceded a stunning amount of power to the executive branch to rule by decree. See the border wall bullshit.
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,775 posts)Call it the "casinofication" if you like. tRump bankrupted casinos. Casinos are all showy and facade and no real substance, like tRump's America which is easily distracted by a facade and fusilades of tweets.
Nay
(12,051 posts)made in China and has not yet moved HIS manufacturing to the US!!
Why has that fact not been plastered all over this article??
IronLionZion
(45,254 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)Rebl2
(13,301 posts)Think Ivanka does as well. Guess its okay for them.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)As far as Corporate America is concerned,well,there is nobody around to answer that question in the month of August. Everyone is on Vacation until after Labor Day.
Hunch says,lots of Vacations are ending prematurely today. The Racist Accused Rapist just shot himself in the foot again. Watch for a massive round of layoffs two weeks from today.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)corps from dealing with china?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Or should it be: Po tvoyemu prikazu moy korol'? Or: בפקודתך מלךי
What kind of response is he expecting and does it have to be in English?
The fiat! The decree! All Hail!
crazytown
(7,277 posts)We are but your obedient servants Your Majesty.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)And as for the Russian, "eb tvoyu mats, bl'yad" would be more appropriate for Trump.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)To float that they are looking to relocate ALL of their manufacturing to a Democratic country.
Git while the gittins' good!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)because we can't afford clothing made in the UK or Germany......
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I'm concerned about the Amazon fires.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Brazil is facing global pressure to contain an 80% increase in wildfires in the world's largest rain forest. Berlin has called for guarantees for the Amazon to be included in the upcoming EU-South America trade deal.
Link: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-france-ireland-threaten-south-american-trade-deal-over-amazon-wildfires/a-50142518
(snip)
German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze made the comments in response to concerns about huge wildfires that are incinerating Brazilian sections of the tropical forest at a record rate as a result of illegal deforestation.
Schulze said advancing the unfinalized trade deal with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay "would be irresponsible" unless it included clear guarantees of protection for the Amazon.
KY............
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)They are happily stashing away their low tax billions and living the high life. Not gonna change nothing.
Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)Well, for companies in search of advice on how to go bankrupt.
IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)ummmm, and what if they don't follow your orders.
this idiot is causing havoc with his retaliatory tactics when he doesn't get his way.
TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)If Obama gave such an order to US companies?
duforsure
(11,882 posts)Will now completely turn on him, and give to others running after this. He's burning his bridges with everyone, and every day the GOP allows this to continue, the more GOP seats in Congress will be lost.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)to replace tRump in 2020.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)Haley is smart enough to stay above the fray and position herself for 2024.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)To tell the sheep how to vote
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Trump wants FedEx, UPS and the Postal Service to open every package from China to search it for fentanyl.
Doesn't ANYONE in the fucking Republican party understand how much this man hates America?
duforsure
(11,882 posts)Big business is looking for an alternative to him. He's trying to cause a depression for Putin probably.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)This lunatic thinks he's king.
sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)BadGimp
(4,009 posts)Does he even realize what he has done?
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)Makes crazy tweets.
Surely we can track who is shorting and making a killing.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)They know what 1Chosen will tweet before he does.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,228 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)You know I have friends in Europe saying "America is lost".
patphil
(6,024 posts)set up shop in?
Could it be.....Russia?
Or, maybe he wants Greenland to use as a manufacturing base without any messy environmental rules.
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)patphil
(6,024 posts)patphil
(6,024 posts)Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)workforce to magically appear in Russia.
patphil
(6,024 posts)Of course that may be exactly what you mean.
But...
if you meant an educated, dedicated workforce then I would say that Trump wouldn't want an educated workforce, only one dedicated to Trump.
In any event, logic and reason never carried any weight in Trump's "thought processes".
He only knows loyalty, and his loyalty is to Putin.
Thus I suggested Russia.
Trump wouldn't have a clue about the readiness of the Russian workforce, and wouldn't care either.
All he would see is a chance to appease his master.
Patrick Phillips
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)In this case literally.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)paleotn
(17,778 posts)That's just......crazy!!!
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)Trumps demand that US companies boycott China, which he doesnt have the power to enforce, inspired responses on Twitter
Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47
Fri 23 Aug 2019 14.39 EDT
Leaning further into a burgeoning economic war with China of his own design, Donald Trump on Friday levied a series of bizarre demands of American companies who do business in the country.
They included an order for American firms to cease production in China.
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.
The proclamation, which the president does not have the power to enforce, might have been expected to unleash a wave of panic and terror among Americas mostly capitalist citizenry such state-mandated orders are, after all, the stuff of planned-economy communist countries.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/trump-hereby-order-response-president-mocked-decree
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Have some fun a go to : https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iherebyorder?src=hash
Samples:
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
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