Ivanka Trump's Chinese-Made Products Spared From Tariffs
Ivanka Trump's Chinese-made products spared from tariffs
Mary Papenfuss
Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods won’t touch Ivanka Trump’s foreign-made products for her fashion line.
While Trump rails at Harley-Davidson motorcycles for moving some production to Europe to dodge EU tariffs, the first daughter and senior White House adviser has never manufactured a single product for her Ivanka Trump brand on American soil.
Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts. Products spared include those manufactured by his daughter.
That means Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province can continue to supply shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand as it has in the past. It’s currently bidding for a new contract to manufacture 140,000 pairs of shoes for Trump’s company, a spokesman told The South China Morning Post.
Hangzhou HS Fashion in Zhejiang province also said it’s filling orders for orders for the G-III Apparel Group, which supplies shoes to Trump’s brand.
Until January 2017 all of Ivanka Trump’s products were made in factories in China and Hong Kong, research director Chris Rogers at Panjiva, a global trade data tracking company headquartered in New York, told Politico. Since then, some manufacturing has apparently been moved to other overseas factories in Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam.
There have been no obvious shipments from China since mid-March, but Rogers speculated shipments may now be more difficult to trace because they could be moving under code names.
Other enterprises and workers in the U.S., meanwhile, are already feeling the heat from a trade war. China’s retaliatory tariffs have targeted U.S. seafood, soybeans, dairy products, cars, apples, whiskey, pet food and cigarettes, among several other products. Farmers are fearful they won’t be able to sell products they had earmarked for China. They also worry that suppliers from other countries will pick up the valuable market — for good — that they have worked for years to cultivate.
“Soybeans are the top agriculture export for the United States, and China is the top market for purchasing those exports,” Iowa soybean grower John Heisdorffer said in a statement. “The math is simple. You tax soybean exports at 25 percent, and you have serious damage to U.S. farmers.”
Despite the president’s mantra to “buy American and hire American” the Trump family retains major business operations overseas, and the Trump Organization continues to manufacture most Trump products in foreign factories.
The president even continues to profit from partnerships involving the Chinese government through state-supported companies and investments, including in developments in Dubai and Indonesia, notes the Washington Post. Ivanka Trump won a number of valuable trademarks in China just as her father was pushing to lift U.S. sanctions against Chinese telecom company ZTE, over the objection of congressional leaders. Trump announced his support for ZTE 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put half-a-billion dollars into the Indonesian project. The deal raised “serious ethical issues,” the head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics said.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Every time we want more evidence of just how corrupt this administration is, another article pops up. Leave it to Trump to allow his daughter {a presidential advisor} and other Trump investments to be exempt from the very tariffs that other equivalent companies are going to have to pay. An awfully effective way to get a leg up on your competition. Should we wonder how many of Trump's cabinet and inner circle have holdings in China that are going to miraculously be exempt from tariffs? My guess is that there are more than a few.
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Pffffttt. I called this when the tariff thing began. I just hope that any store that still carries her trash dumps her like a bad habit.
I'm shocked, just shocked..../s
Big surprise there.
Didn't see this one coming ...../s
I think I am misunderstanding this part .. is this statement saying that Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province only make shoes for Trump (Ivanka) and will not pay tariffs or is it saying that all other American companies that use Chengdu Kameido Shoes to manufacture their shoe brand will be paying a tariff?
I do love a good conspiracy...
I am concerned about the independent farmers, their lives hang in the balance every year waiting to see how their crop will do, hounding the weather reports .. watching what the futures markets are doing - losing a guaranteed sale to a place like China can be / will be huge …
Ranchers to an extent could potentially end up in a similar situation … yet they could regroup a wee bit by selling their cattle here at home, yet that will mean stopping the import of cattle from Mexico - I have always found that interesting - import beef from Mexico while American growers export to China ..