Tariffs threaten to raise costs, extend delivery times, and disrupt innovation across global equipment and machinery industries.
April 10, 2025Tariffs will lead food and beverage companies to re-evaluate how they package products to balance cost, performance, and sustainability.
April 9, 2025To manage uncertainty around tariffs, focus on solid, data-driven strategic planning, rather than knee-jerk reactions.
April 4, 2025The tariffs announced yesterday by the Trump Administration are set to have an immediate impact on the US construction and building product industry.
April 3, 2025Learn how expert analysts evaluate the impact of tariffs on market demand to help businesses plan effective responses and stay resilient.
February 25, 2025As homeowner remodeling projects commonly focus on raising home values, countertop demand will benefit from trends favoring more bathrooms, larger kitchens, and higher value countertop materials to boost ROI.
April 27, 2020Freedonia Group analysis of the global major household appliances market shows where challenges are being felt most strongly and the best opportunities for future growth. See the four key areas to watch.
March 2, 2020On May 31, 2018, the US International Trade Commission announced that it had reason to believe the US quartz countertop industry had been materially injured by imported Chinese products being sold at less than fair value. Following this ruling, a series of tariffs were levied against Chinese quartz slab imports, ranging from 311% to 528%. How is this expected to impact the global countertops market going forward?
August 26, 2019The first three rounds of the Trump administration’s trade war with China have included tariffs on a range of power lawn and garden equipment, in addition to engines and other OEM components, replacement parts, and attachment accessories.
October 23, 2018Importers and exporters have long taken advantage of free trade agreements to circumvent tariffs using such methods as transshipments, outsourcing production, and internal supply chain shifts. Increasingly, however, Chinese manufacturers are taking a simpler – if more ethically dubious – approach to avoiding US-imposed tariffs: code misclassification.
October 17, 2018