President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Saturday, April 29, at the Ames tool factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, prior to holding a rally in the city.
Both orders were designed to protect American workers and companies from unfair foreign competition.
“For a long time our government has sacrificed American companies and workers to unfair foreign competition,” Trump said. “Today I am signing two orders to help keep jobs and wealth in our country.”
The first order was to identify and eliminate trade agreement abuses.
The second order set up a new monitoring office within the White House.
“I am establishing the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy within the White House,” Trump told the crowd at the Ames factory.
“Its mission will be to defend American workers and companies from those who would steal our jobs and threaten our manufacturing base,” he said.
President Trump had promised to carefully review trade policy and to protect American jobs, while on the campaign trail.
