Made-in-USA Wheelbarrows Promoted by Trump Are Now Made in China

When Donald Trump set out to mark the 100th day of his first term in 2017, he headed for a wheelbarrow factory in a swing state with a rich history and patriotic bona fides. The Ames True Temper plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had almost 150 years of production behind it, and the company’s toolmaking history went back even further, to 1774. Ames Cos. supplied shovels to George Washington’s Revolutionary Army and to the carvers of Mount Rushmore. Its wheelbarrows helped build the Hoover Dam. For Trump it was a perfect backdrop to launch his plans to bring factory jobs back ...