Trump’s tariffs are hurting the businesses he’s trying to help

Ripple effect: Boeing’s Renton factory in Washington. The scale of the disruptions are playing out in real time, even for some of the biggest US companies as China ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets. — AFP

NEW YORK: Fresh Press Farms grows all the olives, seeds and nuts it uses to make cooking oils on American farms. It presses them at its own mill in Georgia, then bottles the oil and distributes it to grocery stores across the country.

In theory, it’s just the type of company that President Donald Trump’s America First agenda is designed to help. The brand’s website touts how it’s “proudly made in the USA.”