Yesterday’s announcement could be good news, but at least one boat builder says the best U.S. manufacturers can get out of the new agreement is to be back to where they started.

The boating industry, like the rest of the business world, has been playing what seems like an accelerating game of Pac-Man over the last three years.

Tariffs on multiple fronts have hit the U.S. boating industry hard, with tens of millions of dollars worth of boat orders to Canada and Europe cancelled, and prices for steel and aluminum jumping double digits.

The tariffs from the Trump Administration are making boat and equipment manufacturers jittery during what should be another strong year for the industry.

Rossiter Boats, doing business as Windward Holdings Inc, was placed into bankruptcy on June 5.

The takeaway from the American Boating Congress, my first official appearance as editor of Soundings Trade Only, is that we’re facing some of the most urgent challenges our industry has seen.

A panel of industry stakeholders at the American Boating Congress (ABC) shared ways they have advanced boating’s interests by lobbying and interacting with government agencies.

Panelists at the American Boating Congress (ABC) in Washington, DC, spoke about the uncertainties ahead for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as negotiations continue next week.