How Trump’s ‘buy American’ Order Could Play Out

By Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press When President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday in Kenosha, Wis., he sent a characteristically blunt message. “The policy of our government,” Trump declared, “is to aggressively promote and use American-made goods.” For too long, he complained, American companies that have bid on U.S. government contracts — for work ranging from building roads to supplying computer equipment to federal agencies — have unfairly lost out to foreign competitors. “The result has been countless jobs and countless contracts that have been lost to cheap, subsidized and low-quality foreign goods,” the president argued. “Buy American” requirements that are written into U.S.

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