President Donald Trump's tariff regime is making everything from American-made steel weights, imported yarn, and Amazon's "everyday essentials" more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing worker shortages in key industries. These policies will work in tandem to slow down already expensive deliveries of your favorite goods.

I personally experienced these ill effects when my ASICS Men's Gel-Rocket 11s took 40 days to be delivered from somewhere in Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Japan, or Cambodia, where SourcingWise, a supply chain management company, lists ASICS' manufacturing plants. Under former President Joe Biden, these countries were subjected to relatively low weighted average tariffs rates—4.63 percent, 4.11 percent, 2.86 percent, 1.58 percent, and 7.95 percent in 2022, re

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