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The Trump administration has cited a 1952 law that empowers the government to order someone deported if their presence in the country could pose unfavourable consequences for American foreign policy.

Last month, the company was accused by one of its customers of failing to order the raw materials needed to keep the site going, a claim which Jingye rejected.

Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.

President Trump might try to order these US companies not to raise prices, but the effect will come through soon enough.

The tariffs also came suddenly and at a critical time, when retailers are making decisions about what to order for the fall and holiday shopping season, something that is done months in advance.