Fearing that the outdoor and sporting goods industries could be the next collateral damage of US President Donald Trump's tariffs against Chinese goods, industry leaders are pursuing exemptions from the duties. The organization urges its members to participate in a petition process to exempt industry products from the tariffs list ahead of the official exemption hearing scheduled for Friday. The tariffs also would hit a booming $887 billion outdoor recreation economy, which supports 7.6 million American jobs and generates $80 billion in tax revenues at the federal, state and local levels. Additional tariffs on outdoor products could have a "devastating" impact on outdoor companies and significantly raise costs for consumers, the Outdoor Industry Association said in a recent statement. The current import tariffs on outdoor products are as high as 20 percent.