A small Minnesota town grew a big company. Can it weather the tariff blizzard?

A small Minnesota town grew a big company. Can it weather the tariff blizzard?

A rural Minnesota town is home to the biggest tech giant you’ve never heard of. Now it’s riding out an unprecedented kind of storm.

An American story: DigiKey and tariffs

In a recent NPR story, the tariff spotlight turns to DigiKey, a major electronics distributor headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The piece explores how proposed U.S. tariffs could have outsized effects not just on global supply chains, but also on the economic lifeblood of this rural community, where DigiKey is both a major employer and a symbol of American tech innovation far from Silicon Valley. DigiKey gets products from manufactu…

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A rural Minnesota town is home to the biggest tech giant you’ve never heard of. Now it’s riding out an unprecedented kind of storm. (Image credit: Dan Koeck for NPR)