Jennifer Pak
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986 appearances
102 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard yesterday
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Now that's the official view.
On the ground, Chinese business owners who deal with the U.S.
are cautiously optimistic, I'd say, about this development.
I spoke to a shoe manufacturer based in southern China in Guangdong province.
James Gao owns this company called ShoeBot, and he says Friday's news sounds positive, but...
Because he says it all comes down to how it's enforced and what's next.
Like when he loads his shoes on a ship today, will it be the same tariff rate when it arrives in the U.S.?
You know, this past year has just been a rollercoaster ride with tariffs.
Wow.
Well, they've been living with uncertainty for quite a while since Trump's first term when he launched a trade war with China in 2018.
So Chinese manufacturers that are still standing, they've built this uncertainty into their business model by looking for ways to hedge the tariffs.
So take that shoe manufacturer you heard from earlier.
James Gao, he's expanded his manufacturing to Vietnam, where the US tariff rate is lower there than the ones placed on China.
So right now, most of his athletic shoes destined for the US are made in Vietnam.
But that hasn't meant that he cuts China out of his operations.
He says for more specialized shoes, he still uses his factory in China because they have the high-end machinery and technical know-how here.
China is still the place to manufacture high-quality stuff.
And on the government level, Beijing has been trying to diversify its trading partners.
And they've been doing it for some years now.
In other words...
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