New Economy Forum
Trump Saves Kids, and Target, as China Levies Exclude Baby Goods
- U.S. carves out more than a dozen infant products from tariffs
- Exclusions follow weeks of submissions from U.S. retailers
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American baby showers just won a reprieve from an unlikely source: President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration excluded several big-ticket children’s items including playpens, car booster seats and highchairs from the final list of $200 billion of Chinese goods set for tariffs. The eleventh-hour exclusion marks a partial reprieve for American families bracing for higher prices as the mid-term elections approach and a win for companies like Target Corp. trying to capture a bigger piece of the growing U.S. baby-goods industry.