During the height of Trump’s trade war with China, where tariff increases were announced on an almost weekly basis, companies like Logitech responded by significantly increasing the prices of their products in the US.
Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court ruled that these tariffs were illegal and must be returned to manufacturers. However, there’s been no sign of companies passing on the refunds to customers, and a class action lawsuit is now seeking to correct this …
The Trump tariff saga
Last year, Trump seized on the US trade deficit with China and seemed to imagine that imposing far higher tariffs on products made there would force companies like Apple to move their manufacturing to the US.
That was, of course, always impossible. The US lacks the manufacturing infrastructure, expertise, and affordable labor force needed to support the production of consumer electronics on the scale of major brands.
