Fender Fends off Tariffs as Yamaha, Casio Miss a Beat January 23, 2020 Guitar maker Fender, whose board members include U2’s Bono and The Edge, has been fined £4.5 million ($5.9 million) for breaching U.K. price setting rules. That comes as the firm faces an increasingly complex set of global trade policies that need to feed into its pricing. Those include the im... Read more →
Fender, Yet to Be Rocked by Tariffs, Still Bringing Manufacturing Back to U.S. January 22, 2019 Fender will start production of an acoustic guitar in the U.S. for the first time in 50 years. That’s in part a response to market demand for higher quality products as well as a potential slowdown in sales. Fender’s U.S. seaborne imports fell by 0.7% year over year in 2018 in total. It... Read more →