Mark Parker: Nike Is Prepared for ‘Whatever Realities We Face’ With Trump Administration

18 Jan Mark Parker: Nike Is Prepared for ‘Whatever Realities We Face’ With Trump Administration

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Nike chairman, president and CEO Mark Parker is ready to engage with President-elect Donald Trump and his team.

“We want to work with the new administration and take the steps to continue to promote free and fair trade. That’s what we’re all about and that’s the best position we can have as a company,” Parker said Sunday at the NRF Foundation gala, where he received the first Visionary Award.

Trump’s trade rhetoric continues to top the list of major concerns for industry executives. The soon-to-be commander in chief recently doubled down on comments that he made via Twitter, stating that he would impose a 35 percent tariff on the imports of firms that move their production outside of the U.S.

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