特朗普称不会改变关税政策：外国公司在美在建约三千座工厂、取消关税就会停工
华盛顿——美国总统特朗普11月5日在白宫对记者表示，他不会改变现行关税政策。这是共和党在中期选举中落败两天后，特朗普首次系统回应外界对其贸易政策的质疑。
特朗普称，外国公司为规避高关税，正在美国建设约三千座工厂和生产设施；这些项目中99%是出于对高达250%关税的担忧才启动的。他警告，不在美国设厂的外国公司可能面临50%、100%、150%、250%乃至最高300%的关税。
他反复强调，一旦取消关税，这些在建工程将立即停工：「如果现在取消关税，美国三千座在建工厂将立即停工。」按他的说法，工厂建成投产后便不再需要缴纳关税；反之，若关税被废除、项目半途而废，美国将被迫重新依赖从中国、日本、韩国和菲律宾进口。
民主党在此次中期选举中夺回参众两院，选民对通胀与生活成本的不满被普遍视为共和党落败的主因之一。特朗普此番表态显示，他无意因选举结果调整其以关税推动制造业回流的核心经济政策。
（来源：白宫）
Trump Says Tariff Policy Will Not Change: Some 3,000 Foreign-Built Factories Under Way in the U.S. Would Halt if Tariffs Were Removed
Washington — President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on November 5 that he will not change his tariff policy, his first extended response to questions about his trade agenda two days after the Republican Party's defeat in the midterm elections.
Trump said foreign companies are building approximately 3,000 factories and production facilities in the United States to avoid high tariffs, and claimed that 99 percent of the projects were prompted by fears of tariffs as high as 250 percent. He warned that foreign companies that do not build factories in the U.S. could face tariffs of 50, 100, 150, 250 and up to 300 percent.
He repeatedly emphasized that if the tariffs were eliminated, construction of these facilities would cease immediately, leaving projects unfinished. Once factories are built and operational, he argued, companies no longer need to pay tariffs; scrapping the tariffs, by contrast, would force Americans to rely again on imports from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
Democrats retook both chambers of Congress in the midterms, with voter frustration over inflation and the cost of living widely seen as a leading cause of the Republican defeat. Trump's remarks signal little willingness to reconsider the tariff-centred manufacturing policy at the core of his economic programme.
(Source: White House)
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