What Does Taiwan Know?
The fact that there was a date when the new tariffs were to be enacted was at least an anchor point where brands could make decisions about how to deal with new tariffs, but with yesterday’s 90-day hold, that anchor date has moved again and leaves brands in a quandary about how consumers will react to the postponement, in order to plan production and shipments for 2Q and beyond. This goal-post movement will elongate the ‘tariff cycle’ that has already changed the typical production patterns for the display space, particularly for those producers that feed major brands in the US, so whatever we thought might happen soon is now spread across a wider window..