President Trump’s claim that China caused 60,000 U.S. factories to close

President Trump’s claim that China caused 60,000 U.S. factories to close

“We’ve lost, over a fairly short period of time, 60,000 factories in our country — closed, shuttered, gone. Six million jobs, at least, gone.”
— President Trump, in remarks at the White House announcing tariffs on Chinese imports , March 22, 2018

Long before he was president, Donald Trump complained that China was “ taking all our jobs .” Now, with the executive branch at his command, Trump is getting even with a plan to impose $50 billion to $60 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports.
The president says China’s economic boom has come at the expense of U.S. […]

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