It has been over a decade since some Hong Kong manufacturers, responding to the mainland’s sweeping industrial upgrade and sensing rising US-China trade tensions, moved to set up factories overseas. Being nimble paid off, until President Donald Trump launched his barrage of tariffs on US trading partners as part of his “America first” economic plan, The Post focuses on a global headwear manufacturer that moved strategically early, only to navigate new disarray in world trade today.
Hong Kong businesswoman Pauline Ngan Po-ling was in Beijing for China’s annual parliamentary meeting in early March when mayhem struck the global trading system.
