The Iconic Red Wagon Faces Tariffs Under Trump’s Next Wave

There is no better current example out there for how President Donald Trump has shaken things up in the global economy than the still-closed Strait of Hormuz. But if you want to grasp some of the ways beyond that in which Trump still plans to shake up global commerce, consider another transportation mainstay: little red wagons.

Officials from the US Trade Representative’s office are holding public hearings April 28 and May 5 as part of the tariff investigations Trump ordered after the US Supreme Court ruled the bulk of the duties he imposed last year were illegal. It is all part of the statutory process Trump hoped to avoid and is now forced to go through as his team considers how to put duties on imports from countries they believe don’t enforce bans on goods made with forced labor or that have a “structural excess capacity” in manufacturing.