Forbes: The same day Japan announced that it would spend upwards of $2.2 billion to get its corporations out of China and either back home or spread throughout southeast Asia, White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said the U.S. should “pay the moving costs” of every American company that wants out of China.
“I would say, 100 percent immediate expensing across the board for plant, equipment, intellectual property, structures, renovations… In other words, if we had 100 percent immediate expensing, we would literally — literally pay the moving costs of American companies,” Kudlow said on the FOX Business Network’s America Works Together Town Hall which aired on Thursday.
To bring the supply chain back to the United States would, in most cases, require hefty capital expenditures — entire new factories, or additions to existing ones. It means any profit companies are counting on due to lower costs in China would be erased as they shift gears out, spending millions of dollars more to do so. It’s a headache. And it’s one reason why businesses and Wall Street hated the trade war; it required them to redo the math. Nobody likes homework on the weekends.
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