{"id":184037,"date":"2025-12-15T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184037\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:34:06","slug":"trumps-tariffs-on-southeast-asia-put-us-christmas-gifts-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184037\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tariffs on Southeast Asia put US Christmas gifts at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the holiday season approaches in the United States<\/a>, the rush for Christmas<\/a> gifts is straining manufacturers thousands of kilometres away in Southeast Asia<\/a>, where supply chain shocks triggered by US tariffs are hitting exports of everything from mittens and headphones to toys.<\/p>\n

Manufacturers have spent much of the past year trying to adapt to the tariffs, which have driven up production and logistics costs while also disrupting delivery schedules. Now, the seasonal demand spike has only served to pile on more pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is scrambling to adjust,\u201d said Ivan Sham, vice-president of the Malaysian Textile Manufacturers Association and owner of a textile company.<\/p>\n

Although far from Southeast Asia\u2019s largest garment exporter, Malaysia<\/a> has positioned itself as an alternative to China<\/a> for certain goods, supplying the US with textiles including knitted and crocheted sleepwear, mittens and cotton blends.After being hit with a 19 per cent tariff rate<\/a> this summer, the Southeast Asian nation signed a trade deal with Washington to preserve US market access, opening its doors in turn to more competition from major American manufacturers.Everyone is scrambling to adjustIvan Sham Malaysian Textile Manufacturers AssociationUS tariffs were placed on all of the region\u2019s low-cost exporters, not just Malaysia, drawing Vietnam<\/a>, Laos<\/a>, Indonesia<\/a> and the like further into the deepening structural rivalry between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the holiday season approaches in the United States, the rush for Christmas gifts is straining manufacturers thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12587,11497,4177,138,607,18399,219,54467,5696,14348,1775,52500,111,139,69,38232,4426,7677,4327,11395,2179,2317],"class_list":{"0":"post-184037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bangladesh","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-christmas","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hot-wheels","16":"tag-indonesia","17":"tag-laos","18":"tag-malaysia","19":"tag-mattel","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-penang","24":"tag-southeast-asia","25":"tag-tariffs","26":"tag-thailand","27":"tag-toys","28":"tag-trump","29":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}