Kicking The Can Down The Road On Tariffs Won't Work For This Maryland Manufacturer

Huether, a Republican, said he shares nan administration’s extremity of reinvigorating American industry.

“We want to bring arsenic overmuch manufacturing backmost to this state arsenic you can. And arsenic a family, we made a strategical committedness to being nan specialty tin shaper successful America pinch American workers,” he said. “We want to beryllium here.”

But according to Huether, Trump has made that harder to do. He said he has ne'er voted for nan president because he dislikes really he treats group and communicates, and his waste and acquisition policies person caused headaches for his business operations.

“Chaos is our nemesis,” Huether said, echoing a interest many mini business owners person voiced for months amid Trump’s erratic tariff rollout: “We can’t scheme erstwhile we don’t person a imagination of what’s going connected for nan adjacent 2 aliases 3 years.”

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Independent Can Company’s wares mightiness already beryllium successful your cupboard. The Belcamp, Maryland-based family business, successful cognition since 1929, makes nan packaging for everything from Wegmans’ marque of Virginia peanuts to nan Santa Claus tins filled pinch chocolates aliases popcorn that deed market shelves astir nan holidays.

The institution manufactures cans and different containers for celebrated user brands including Swiss Miss, Zippo and Titleist. One of its newest customers is nan articulator balm shaper Burt’s Bees. Independent Can Company — whose yearly income person averaged $130 cardinal successful caller years — utilized to person much than 30 home competitors successful specialty tin making, Huether estimated, galore of which were family-owned businesses. Today location are conscionable a mates left, he said.