An-Najah News - According to officials familiar with U.S. planning Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Former senior U.S. administration officials said "economic destruction and the massive U.S. coronavirus death toll are driving a government-wide push to move U.S. production and supply chain dependency away from China, even if it goes to other more friendly nations instead.

Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department said “I think it is essential to understand where the critical areas are and where critical bottlenecks exist,”

 Krach added the matter was key to U.S. security and one the government could announce new action on soon.