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[1/3] Rick Woldenberg，Learning Resources和hand2mind的首席执行官，因关税对其玩具公司造成不利影响而起诉特朗普政府并胜诉，于2026年2月20日在美国伊利诺伊州弗农山拍摄照片。REUTERS/Eric Cox [购买许可权，在新标签页打开]
- 摘要
- 企业
- 最高法院依据《国际紧急经济权力法》推翻特朗普关税
- Learning Resources是首批起诉企业，或可获得退款
- 退款流程预计复杂且不确定
- 特朗普可能利用其他法律框架替代被驳回的关税
纽约，2月19日（路透社） – 近30年前，当Rick Woldenberg接手家族玩具企业Learning Resources Inc.时，政治和诉讼并非他的议事日程。但如今，他成为了近年来美国最高法院最重要裁决之一的核心人物。
周五，美国最高法院在众多进口商、美国州政府及其他方起诉后，推翻了唐纳德·特朗普总统依据《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）实施的史无前例关税。
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总部位于伊利诺伊州的Learning Resources主要从中国进口其销售的大部分教育玩具，是去年4月首批起诉特朗普关税的小企业之一。与其他进口商一样，该公司现在可能有权获得数十亿美元退款——尽管最高法院未决定具体如何及何时退款。
“我希望这项裁决能让每个人都喘口气，思考什么是重要的，什么需要解决。”Woldenberg周五告诉路透社。
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根据2025年美国商会报告，Learning Resources及其子公司hand2mind等小企业约占美国进口商的97%，每年进口价值约8680亿美元的商品。该报告称特朗普关税对这类企业的生存构成威胁。
去年4月特朗普宣布加征关税后几天内，Woldenberg就公开反对这些关税。6月，在Learning Resources赢得地区法院诉讼后，它请求美国最高法院提前审查此案。
“我认为不行动比行动面临更大的困难。”Woldenberg周四在另一次采访中表示，并补充说他不认为这场法律斗争具有政治色彩。
“这关乎税收，”他说，”他们欠我们钱……每个美国人都同意我们税赋过重，没人愿意缴纳本无需支付的税款。”
尽管周五最高法院作出裁决，但问题远未解决。专家表示，退款流程将漫长且法律复杂，特朗普可能试图通过其他法律框架挽救关税。
家族企业
对Woldenberg而言，玩具是家族血脉的传承。Learning Resources由其母亲于1984年创立，其根源可追溯至Woldenberg祖父一个多世纪前开创的生意。
与hand2mind共同生产字母咖啡杯（帮助儿童区分大小写字母）和Numberblocks（受英国同名电视剧启发的数学学习玩具套装）等教育产品。
Learning Resources拥有约500名员工，产品销往约100个国家。其大部分生产在中国——那里面临最严厉的关税打击。Woldenberg估计2025年他支付了约1000万美元关税。
他还不得不缩减公司扩张计划，例如在伊利诺伊州增加60万平方英尺仓储和办公空间的计划，并将员工调派至重新设计供应链等任务。销售、营销和产品开发计划一夜之间改变。公司从创新转向应对和生存，支出减少，收入下降。”我们去年收缩了业务。”他说。
他表示，反关税运动的关键是展示特朗普政府推动企业将制造业迁回美国所面临的实际挑战。
“在紧急情况下将供应链迁出一个国家，就像炸弹落下一样，这是一个无人准备的项目。”他说。
生产玩具时，Woldenberg的企业使用30多台注塑机（每台重数吨），将熔融塑料注入数千个钢制模具中。他称迁移这些设备成本高得离谱，物流上几乎不可能实现，需要数十辆平板卡车和一系列起重机。
此外还有专业知识问题。Woldenberg在中国的合作工厂多年来一直生产玩具，拥有高度专业化的劳动力和满足玩具行业高安全标准的能力。他表示，复制这种能力可能需要数月或数年。
如今，在裁决之后，Woldenberg希望在过去一年大部分精力投入诉讼后，引导公司回归正常运营。他希望Learning Resources已缴纳的关税能由政府退还。
“一旦退款到账，我们就会开始使用这笔钱。”他说，”我们想重新经营公司。”
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From longshot lawsuit to landmark ruling: How a family toy business took on Trump’s tariffs
By Nicholas P. Brown and Eric Cox
February 20, 2026 5:48 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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Item 1 of 3 Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources and hand2mind, who sued the Trump administration over tariffs that adversely impacted his toy companies and won, poses for a picture, in Vernon Hills, Illinois, U.S., February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Cox
[1/3]Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources and hand2mind, who sued the Trump administration over tariffs that adversely impacted his toy companies and won, poses for a picture, in Vernon Hills, Illinois, U.S., February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Cox [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
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NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) – When Rick Woldenberg took the reins of his family’s toy business, Learning Resources Inc, nearly three decades ago, politics and litigation were not on his agenda. Then he became a central figure in one of the most significant U.S. Supreme Court rulings of the last several years.
The court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s imposition of unprecedented tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, after a rash of importers, U.S. state governments and others sued.
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Illinois-based Learning Resources, which imports most of the educational toys it sells from China, was one of the first small businesses to bring a lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs last April. Along with other importers, the company could now be entitled to a share of billions of dollars in refunds – although the Supreme Court did not decide how or when that may happen.
“My hope is that this ruling is an opportunity for everyone to take a breath and think about what is important and what needs to get done,” Woldenberg told Reuters on Friday.
The White House did not immediately comment on the ruling.
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Small businesses like Learning Resources and its sister company, hand2mind, represent about 97% of U.S. importers and bring in some $868 billion worth of goods annually, according to a 2025 U.S. Chamber of Commerce report that described Trump’s tariffs as a threat to such businesses’ survival.
Within days of Trump’s tariff announcement last April, Woldenberg was speaking out against the duties. In June, after Learning Resources won its lawsuit in the district court, it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an early review.
“I decided that I would have a lot harder time dealing with not acting than acting,” Woldenberg told Reuters in a separate interview on Thursday, adding he did not see his legal battle as political.
“It’s about taxes,” he said. “They owe us money… every American agrees we pay too much in taxes, and no one will want to pay a tax they don’t have to pay.”
Despite Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, the issue is far from resolved. Experts say the process of getting refunds will be long and legally complex, and that Trump could try to salvage tariffs by using other legal frameworks.
FAMILY BUSINESS
For Woldenberg, toys are in the blood. Learning Resources was founded in 1984 by his mother and has roots in a business started by Woldenberg’s grandfather more than a century ago.
Together with hand2mind, it makes educational items like Alphabet Coffee Cups – which help kids distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters – and Numberblocks, a toy set for math learning inspired by a British TV series of the same name.
Learning Resources has about 500 employees and sells in some 100 countries. Most of its production is in China – which faced some of the most crippling tariffs – and Woldenberg estimated he paid some $10 million in duties in 2025.
He also had to cut back on company expansion plans, such as adding 600,000 square feet of warehouse and office space in Illinois, and divert employees to tasks like re-engineering the company’s supply chain. Sales, marketing and product development plans changed overnight. The company went from trying to innovate to trying to react and survive. It spent less. It took in less. “We shrank last year,” he said.
A key focus of his anti-tariff campaign, he said, was to illustrate the practical challenges of what the Trump administration was pushing companies to do: move manufacturing back to the U.S.
“Moving a supply chain out of a country on an emergency basis, as if bombs are falling on your head, is a project no one is prepared for,” he said.
To make toys, Woldenberg’s businesses use more than 30 injection machines, each weighing several tons, which pump molten plastic into thousands of steel casings. Moving it would be prohibitively expensive, he said, and next to impossible logistically, demanding dozens of flatbed trucks and a series of cranes.
There is also the issue of expertise. Woldenberg’s partner factory in China has been making toys for years, with a highly specialized workforce and the ability to meet the toy industry’s high safety standards. Replicating that, he said, could take months or years.
Now, after the ruling, Woldenberg hopes to guide the company back to normalcy after spending much of his energy this past year in court. He is hopeful the money Learning Resources has paid in tariffs will be refunded by the government.
“And as soon as they do, we’ll start spending it,” he said. “We want to run our company again.”
Reporting by Nicholas P. Brown; editing by Peter Henderson and Nia Williams
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