Tariffs Push Claas to Shift Combine Production Overseas

Tariffs Push Claas to Shift Combine Production Overseas

King Don wages his trade war on the pretext that tariffs will boost American manufacturing. But as usual, the Wharton wimp gets economics wrong. Tariffs have pushed American combiner Claas to shift production away from Omaha to Germany: Anticipating the tariffs that would come, Claas last spring tried to get in front of the situation in North America by pushing its Omaha plant to produce extra of the Lexion combines, even pushing its Nebraska w…