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Trade war

Exclusive: Sharp eyes moving printer output from China to Thailand

Industry peer Kyocera also looks to Southeast Asia for shelter from US tariffs

Sharp currently makes much of its U.S.-bound office equipment at this plant in China's Jiangsu Province.

OSAKA -- Sharp and Kyocera are the latest office equipment manufacturers based in Japan to consider shifting production away from China to protect their businesses from the U.S.-China trade war, Nikkei has learned.

The two companies would follow global market leader Ricoh, the Japanese peer that has decided to move all production of U.S.-bound high-end multifunction printers to Thailand from China.

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