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How Ivanka Trump benefits from her dad’s new Chinese tariffs

Something rather suspicious was exempt from the tariffs.

 

David Covucci

Tech

Posted on Jul 9, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 11:38 am CDT

On Friday, the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports, including auto parts, medical devices, and boats. Not included in the list was clothing, as noticed in a report by Politico and the South China Morning Post.

While China produces a third of all clothing worn in the U.S. and 72 percent of all shoes, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association, it did not seem to be important enough to be part of Trump’s trade war.

President Donald Trump‘s daughter, Ivanka Trump, manufactures much of her line in China and, as it just so happens, her company has an outstanding order that a Chinese manufacturing company is bidding on.

Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province said it had supplied shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand in the past and was aiming to do so again.

 

“We are trying win a contract with one of our customers,” a Kameido representative said. “The entire order is for the Ivanka brand.”

 

The representative said the company was bidding to supply 140,000 pairs of shoes. In the past, the company had fulfilled orders for at least 10,000 pairs for the brand.

Although there’s no smoking gun, it was enough for people to holler online about the conflict of interest.

https://twitter.com/Snowfla08935019/status/1016329021016158208

https://twitter.com/paul_a_sharp/status/1015791183342292992

Ivanka, who is a White House adviser, could have theoretically consulted her father on what to implement tariffs on, which could then have an impact on her portfolio.

So while it’s purely speculative that the exemption was designed to help his daughter, it’s is another example of the Trumps’ unprecedented entanglement of politics and business as usual.

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*First Published: Jul 9, 2018, 12:03 pm CDT