TAMPA (Florida) • Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump claims that countries such as Singapore, China, India
and Mexico are stealing jobs from Americans, and vowed to stop the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
"America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered
the World Trade Organisation, another Bill and Hillary-backed
disaster," he told supporters in Florida, reported the Press Trust
of India. "We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the
history of the world. There's never been a country that's lost jobs
like we do, so stupidly, so easy to solve."
Mr Trump said Goodrich Lighting Systems laid off 255
workers and moved jobs to India, while Baxter Health Care
Corporation laid off 199 workers and moved its jobs to Singapore.
"It's getting worse and worse and worse," he said.
A Trump administration, he said, would impose a 35 per
cent tax on any US company that wants to fire its workers and move
to another country, and then shift its product back into the United
States.
He also said he would immediately stop the
"job-killing" TPP, calling it another disaster in the making.
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