Trump ordered Fed Ex, Amazon and UPS to pull out of China

US President Donald Trump has urged major US companies based in China to return to their home countries to continue operations in North America.

"Our country has stupidly lost billions of dollars with China for many years," Trump told his Twitter account.

"They have stolen our intellectual property for hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and they want to continue – I will not let it go – we do not need China, and frankly, we would be much better without The huge sums that China has earned and stolen from the United States, year after year, for decades, must stop, "he said.

…. better without them. The huge amounts of money that the Chinese manufacture and fly in the United States, year after year, for decades, go and must stop. We are ordering our big American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, especially by offering them ..

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019

…. all shipments of fentanyl from China (or elsewhere!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said that would stop – this is not the case. Our economy, because of our gains over the last two and a half years, is MUCH larger than China's. We will continue like this!

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019

In this context, he proposed a repatriation of American companies based in the Asian giant. "Our big American companies have been given the command to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, which involves bringing their businesses home and manufacturing their products in the United States," he said, promising that this Friday afternoon will "respond" with more measures to the new tariffs that China has announced its intention to implement.

"This is a great opportunity for the United States," he said, adding that he had also commanded all courier and freight forwarders in his country, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the state that "search and reject" all shipments of fentanyl from China or anywhere in the world.

Fentanyl is a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin, very cheap, with a powerful and lethal effect, a hundred times higher than morphine. According to the DEA, it is a significant threat to the public health of Americans.

"Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year, President Xi said it would stop, he did not do it.Our economy, because of our last two and a half years' income, is MUCH larger than the We'll keep it that way! "Trump remarked.

Why Trump broke out against China

China on Friday announced the imposition of US $ 75,000 million worth of US goods duties to offset US tariffs, said the Foreign Ministry of the Asian country in a statement.

According to the document, tariffs will begin to apply as of September 1, when new US electricity rates applied to the Asian giant's products will come into effect for an amount of US $ 300 billion announced by Trump.

The State Council Tariff Board has clarified that among these tariffs was the recovery of additional duties of 25% or 5% for imported vehicles and components manufactured in the United States as of December 15.

According to the foreign statement, the US tariffs have resulted in a "lasting escalation of economic and commercial frictions" between the two countries, "seriously damaging the interests of China and other countries, seriously threatening the trading system multilateralism and the principle of free trade ".

China also said these measures constituted a "forced response" to US unilateralism and trade protectionism, and urged Washington to "cooperate" to "find a mutually beneficial and mutually beneficial solution."

The US government warned on August 1 against the imposition of new tariffs of 10% on imports from China, valued at $ 300 billion as of September 1, despite ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries.

Last week and in reaction to Trump's announcement, China announced that it would react against the "serious violation" of the consensus reached between the leaders of the two countries in negotiations that engage officials of the two major powers for months.

Before this announcement, a delegation from the Chinese executive was due to visit Washington in early September to continue negotiations on a future trade agreement, a meeting that remains unresolved after this decision.

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