It’s not entirely clear to me why tariffs would help your local logistics busine...

Symbiote · 2026-02-12T17:59:11 1770919151

I was shocked when I last visited the USA (from Europe) and saw things like Walmart paper bags labelled "Made in Germany".

Perhaps some of that has been replaced by "Made in USA".

(Day-to-day, I generally don't buy things not made in the EU — packaging, for example, will typically be from Sweden, France or Poland.)

FuriouslyAdrift · 2026-02-12T19:52:59 1770925979

Because it made it possible for domestic production to increase.

dalyons · 2026-02-13T03:05:34 1770951934

Of what? Other stuff? Or packing materials? Or

FuriouslyAdrift · 2026-02-13T14:52:39 1770994359

Packaging is a support industry (other than stock boxes which are bulk manufacturerd for things like moving companies, etc).

So... the more companies making things or shipping things, the more boxes are needed. Financial and govt analysts use the packaging industry as kind of a canary for the general health of mnaufacturing and retail as it is on the end of the long tail for supply chains. Packaging is the first to decline and the last to pick up with the cycles of the economy.