From Baseball Bats to Caskets, Trump Tariffs Set to Hit Home (2)

If and when President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum take effect at a minute past midnight in Washington on Wednesday, it will mark a repeat of first-term levies that he and his supporters argue helped rescue the US’s metal makers.

One thing will be very different this time: The proposed tariffs are coming directly for more than $150 billion in imported consumer products as well as the raw steel and aluminum they hit last time.

That means new tariffs of at least 25% on everything from the aluminum baseball bats little-leaguers use to fishing reels and nets, ...