At Consumer Tech Show, German Firms Fret About US Tariffs

Source: International Business Times

Worries about US tariffs were on display at this year's IFA consumer tech show in Berlin AFP Displaying one of her company's hot plates proudly labelled "Made in Germany", Sigrid Klenk concedes that maintaining production at home could become harder due in part to US tariffs. Continuing to make goods in Germany "is becoming less and less simple," Klenk, boss of the small firm Rommelsbacher, said at the IFA consumer tech show in Berlin. Particularly problematic for Rommelsbacher, whose products range from kettles to coffee makers, is a 50-percent US levy on steel and aluminium.