3 days ago
US Tariff Limbo Gives Canadian Warehouses a New Lease on Life
Not long after President Donald Trump announced his 'Liberation Day' tariffs, Todd Pollock got a call from a business with a problem. The caller, whose company manufactures home furnishings in China, had about 50 shipping containers on their way to Southern California, each facing a surprise 145% tariff bill. It was too late to divert them to another port.
So Pollock offered a creative solution: Change the final destination on the shipping manifest to his warehouse in Windsor, Ontario—thousands of miles away—then transport everything there in special bonded trucks, which exempt their contents from duties while they're in transit. Legally, it was as if the products never landed in the US at all. Now palettes of those China-made furnishings are stacked almost 30 feet high in Pollock's warehouse just across the border from Detroit, alongside boxes of toys, apparel, pet goods and other inanimate refugees from Trump's latest trade war—and Pollock, co-founder of Windsor Fulfillment Corp., only sees demand for space like his growing.
