(My instincts scream: no. At least not by tweeting...)
(My instincts scream: no. At least not by tweeting...)
The role doesn't have that de facto power, but he could enact things that effectively make it the de jure law by forbidding US companies doing business with the US federal government from using anything that sources some or all of its goods and services that have a dependency on a Chinese supply chain. The anti-BDS rules that some states have is what I would consider to be the precedent here [0].
Given that the president also has frequent campaign rallies, he can persuade voters to boycott companies that again source components from a Chinese supply chain. His official campaign baseball caps aren't made in China though some unofficial ones are sold on Amazon that come from China [1]. I guess the same would go for US flags.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sancti...
[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-hat-china/
He could declare a 10,000% tariff on iPhones if he wanted.