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Moog Asks Customers to Protest Trump Tariffs

The North Carolina-based synth company states it will likely have to make layoffs, possibly move overseas due to new policy

 

Moog synth photo by Olly Curtis/Future Music Magazine via Getty Images

The Trump administration recently began imposing new tariffs on steel and other imported products. Earlier this month, it announced an additional 25% tariff increase on electronic components and tech goods from China. Various American manufacturers, including Harley Davidson and General Motors, have warned the tariffs will threaten American jobs. Now, North Carolina-based synthesizer manufacturer Moog has issued a similar statement to its customers, urging them to call their representatives and ask for the tariff to be reconsidered before it goes into effect on July 6.


“These tariffs will immediately and drastically increase the cost of building our instruments, and have the very real potential of forcing us to lay off workers and could (in a worst case scenario) require us to move some, if not all, of our manufacturing overseas,” the letter reads. “We ask that you will support us by imploring our elected officials to recognize that these tariffs are seriously harmful to American businesses like Moog.”