Scrabble letters spelling the word "trade."

Tariff engineering: The legal way companies avoid paying higher import taxes

Strategies like tariff engineering benefit companies but hurt consumers, says an ASU economics expert.

In this article published June 26, 2025, on ABC 15:

This is now going to be another diversion for our engineers. Now they're going to go off into tariff engineering as opposed to quality product development.

Dennis Hoffman, director of the Center for Competitiveness and Prosperity Research and the Office of the University Economist

Latest news