A Move to the US to Avoid Tariffs? There Are Trade-Offs.
When President Trump upended global trade in his first term by placing tariffs on goods from China, many companies decided to move production elsewhere to avoid the duties.
For one company in Germany, that decision has come back to haunt it.
In 2022, Bizerba, a German maker of industrial scales and slicers with customers around the globe, including the U.S. sandwich chain Subway, broke ground on a factory in Serbia. The strategy was to produce more parts and machines for the...
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