Christy Bieber
5 min read
Francisco Garcia of Lynx Logistics said he's been getting "little sleep lately" thanks to President Trump’s tariffs.
But unlike some business owners who may be tossing and turning because of economic fears, Garcia is losing sleep because business is booming, according to CBS News.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bonded Warehouses, like the one Garcia owns, allow companies to bring goods into the United States and store them in a secured warehouse facility without paying tariffs up front upon import.
They are typically used to allow companies to temporarily move goods into one country before shipping them to another without paying tariffs during the process. But now companies are taking advantage of bonded warehouses to try to avoid the economic damage that Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs may cause.
Lynx Logistics is not the only bonded warehouse benefiting from the tariffs, as many businesses are looking for a way to blunt the financial impact of the President's trade moves.
Danny Reaume, an industrial property broker who works with JLL — a commercial real estate company — says he’s witnessed an explosion in interest in bonded warehouses.
As Reaume explained to CBS News, his company used to get around one-to-two calls about bonded warehouses in a typical 30-day period, but last month’s Liberation Day announcement changed the game. JLL is now reportedly receiving more than 100 calls per month about bonded warehouses.
The Liberation Day announcement included a universal 10% tariff on all imported goods, as well as dozens of additional tariffs on named products and imports from specific countries.
Trump intended for the announcement to encourage companies to bring manufacturing back to America — although some of these tariffs have now been put on pause after economic chaos and a stock market decline occurred in the aftermath of the announcement.
Still, companies coping with the reality of a global trade war are eager to use bonded warehouse facilities to get goods into the country without having to pay tariffs on them immediately.
