12-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Inside the Arizona Warehouse That Has Become a Shelter in the Tariff Storm
SKU Distribution had one customer for all of last year at its Mesa, Ariz., warehouse. This year, it is teeming with new business from companies storing items such as aluminum poles, ice picks, carabiners and firearm safes.
That is because the warehouse is the ultimate U.S.-based tariff refuge. The 110,000-square-foot building sits in a foreign-trade zone, meaning companies can import products tariff-free while they are stored or used to assemble other goods at the warehouse. That allows companies to avoid paying duties until the products are shipped out to U.S. buyers.
