At a rally in central Pennsylvania on Monday, Donald Trump had an easy answer for US businesses fretting over the breakdown in trade talks with China and the escalation in levies on thousands of products coming across the Pacific Ocean.
“Anyone who doesn’t want to pay the tariffs has a simple solution: build your product in America, bring your factories back to Pennsylvania, where you want to be anyway,” the US president said.
Mr Trump has ramped up his calls for American companies to ditch China and bring manufacturing back to the US as the prospects of a deal with Xi Jinping, Chinese president, dimmed in recent weeks. But many US businesses know that rapidly unravelling their China ties is not as simple as the White House thinks.