The list of $200 billion in Chinese imports will impose a 10% tariff effective Sep. 24 on a number of sporting goods products, and that rate will escalate to 25%, effective Jan. 1. That will, as a practical matter, delay the more serious impact of the tariffs until the Spring. In the end, petitions of the industry to exempt their products from the China trade war fell largely on deaf ears as the initial list was unchanged, hitting baseball gloves and mitts, sports gloves of many kinds, including ski, bicycles and many components, travel and sports bags, including backpacks, and ... Log in to view full article.