UPDATE: President Trump is retaliating against China by imposing a new round of tariffs on Chinese imports. They include raising an existing 25 percent tariff on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to 30 percent on Oct. 1.

Separately, Trump's original plan to tariff remaining Chinese imports starting on Sept. 1 at 10 percent has now been revised to 15 percent.

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In his latest attempt to bring electronics manufacturing back to the US, President Trump is flat out calling on all US companies to stop assembling their products in China.

"Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA," Trump said in a Friday tweet storm.

The President's tweets come in response to the Chinese government imposing retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion worth of US imports as the trade war between the two countries continues to escalate.

On Twitter, Trump doubled-down on that trade war, saying he plans to respond to the new tariffs this afternoon. "We don't need China and frankly, would be far better off without them," he said.

Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won't let that happen! We don't need China and, frankly, would be far.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019

The tech industry disagrees. Vendors including Dell, HP, Intel, Apple, and Sony have told the White House that consumer electronics production is heavily dependent on Chinese manufacturing.

"It would cause significant supply chain disruption to shift sourcing entirely to the United States or a third country, and it would increase costs—even beyond the cost of the proposed tariffs—on products that are already manufactured under tight margin conditions," video game makers Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo said in a June letter to the US Trade Representative's office.

Nevertheless, Trump has urged vendors, specifically Apple, to bring their manufacturing back to the US. "I want Apple to build their plants in the United States. I don't want them to build them in China," Trump said last month.

The White House was initially set on tariffing all remaining Chinese imports starting—$300 billion worth—on Sept. 1. But Trump postponed tariffing popular electronics products made in China—including smartphones, laptops, and video game consoles—until Dec. 15, effectively avoiding the holiday shopping season.

Other electronics products won't be so lucky. Come Sept. 1, the Trump administration still plans on imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese-assembled imports, including all-in-one desktops, smart speakers, TVs, printers, and solid-state memory drives. A 25 percent tariff is already in effect on Chinese imports covering PC parts such as motherboards, graphics card, CPU coolers, in addition to PC desktops.

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