http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3824617/Trump-factory-jobs-sent-China-never-come-back.htmlInside a Trump Chinese shoe factory: 100,000 pairs of footwear branded with Ivanka's name have been made at huge facility (but now it's moving to Africa!) Donald Trump has railed at politicians for allowing US manufacturing jobs to be moved abroad to China
But 100,000 pairs of shoes bearing his daughter Ivanka's name have been made in Dongguan, China
The Huajian company is now moving production to Africa because labor there is evencheaper
It can employ five Ethiopians at its factory near Addis Ababa for the price of one Chinese worker
By CHRIS SUMMERS FOR MAILONLINE and AFP
PUBLISHED: 02:45 EST, 6 October 2016 | UPDATED: 13:20 EST, 6 October 2016
Donald Trump has pledged to bring long-lost American manufacturing jobs back from China.
But he may be too late - even for products that bear his family name.
A Chinese company that makes shoes for his daughter's fashion line is moving production to Africa, where labor is much cheaper.
The billionaire tycoon has frequently accused China of stealing US jobs through unfair trade practices and currency manipulation, while simultaneously relying on the country to make Trump-branded goods.
But the kind of work that goes into making such products may never return to America, says the president of major footwear producer Huajian Group.
Zhang Huarong, speaking in his office in the southern factory hub of Dongguan, said: 'Some manufacturers can't even survive in China any more.'
But Zhang Huarong is one of a growing number of Chinese manufacturers which are moving production to Africa and South-East Asia in search of lower production costs.
In 2012 Mr Zhang opened his first factory in Ethiopia.
Four years later he is building a $1billion facility there and production lines are already humming.
'My goal is to create 30,000 jobs in Ethiopia by 2020, with exports reaching $1billion to $1.5 billion,' he said.
Christopher Balding, professor of economics at Peking University HSBC Business School, says low-skilled manufacturing jobs were prone to being moved to where labour costs were the lowest and he said even though Chinese wages were far beneath the minimum wage in the United States they were still higher than in Africa.
The Trump campaign did not respond to questions from AFP, while Ivanka Trump's company declined to comment.
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