Hundreds of vendors crowded into a Chicago convention center this week for the country's biggest homeware trade show.

We make these insulated vegan leather lunch boxes.

So these are our car and closet diffusers.

All of our pottery has saucers as well as drain and toll

to make the perfect home for our plan.

The Expo is full of businesses showing off their merchandise,

everything from cookware and linens to luggage and vacuums.

But this year, the convention has been dominated by one thing.

There's a lot of talk about tariffs.

Everyone's thinking about it.

We're telling with our larger customers that the tariffs are going to become higher and it's going to affect us.

I'm a little bit worried. It's a challenge, you know, like everybody will be paying more.

And, you know, there's a complete uncertainty.

These vendors' concerns largely focused on the new tariffs Trump imposed on China yesterday.

Many of these companies make products there.

And to avoid the tariffs, they're thinking about moving their operations out of China altogether.

Like Steve Greenspon, CEO of a company that sells home organization products.

We're moving significantly more to Cambodia, Thailand, more in Vietnam, and Indonesia as well.

And you're moving to avoid the tariffs from Chinese imports?

This is influenced by tariffs. Absolutely. This is an exceedingly difficult, long-term, disruptive process.

Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Linebaugh. It's Wednesday, March 5th.

Coming up on the show, Trump's tariffs are pushing companies out of China.

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