US companies not ready to leave China - Arthur Kroeber

Arthur Kroeber

One of the purposes of Trump's trade war is convincing US companies to leave China. But they are not yet ready to move, says economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, in the Channel News Asia. And when they move, they might before countries like Vietnam over the US, he adds.

Channels News Asia:

The trade hawks are cleverly using targeted tariffs to make it more difficult for companies to export from China.

(US Trade Representative)“Lighthizer wants US corporations to move into other locations,” says Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Gavekal Dragonomics. His Beijing-based research group has clients who are considering doing just that, though no one has yet pulled the trigger. 

“Vietnam is the obvious alternative but there are still too many potholes,” he says. Companies “don’t want to be the one to fill in the potholes. They want to wait for others to pioneer and then see if it makes sense to move.”

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