As Donald Trump launched his trade war with China in early 2018, Britax, one of America’s best-known child car seat brands, stepped up production in the US, convinced that the White House was committed to encouraging US manufacturing.
Such confidence did not last. After being battered by tariffs on some of the imported parts for its US-assembled car seats, the company is now pleading for a reprieve and warning that as a last resort it might be forced to close its US operations, possibly shifting them to China.
“We’re being significantly penalised,” said Robert McCutcheon, president of the Americas for Britax, whose US manufacturing hub is in Fort Mill, a fast-growing town in South Carolina.
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