Businesses didn’t wait to find out what the next tariff announcement would bring. They bought everything first.

Cruise ships now sit offshore, stripped of passengers and filled instead with parmesan wheels and pallets of wine—floating warehouses for a trade policy that changes by the week. No one knows when the goods will move, who will pay the final cost, or whether any of it was necessary.

For now, the inventory waits. The market rolls on.

PIDG streamlines its compliance manual to a single sentence: “Use Good Judgment.” Employees call it “a refreshing lack of guidance.”