So we don't like it," Friesen said in an interview with China Daily on June 22 at his office. "The tariffs are surrounded by intellectual property concerns, we are not an intellectual property concern." "We don't match those criteria, and we believe that we should be exempted from those kinds of tariffs," he emphasized. With five industrial parks in China, SANY also has research and development and manufacturing or assembly facilities in Germany, India and Brazil. Friesen said it's an advantage that SANY made the move to go to manufacturing before the tariffs were announced.