Williams-Sonoma CEO says the company saw tariff hikes coming, hired more US workers. May 20, 2019 8:01 pm by IWB CNBC Television Published on May 14, 2019 Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Abler explains to Jim Cramer that the furniture retailer foresaw tariff increases on Chinese imports and how they moved operations outside of the country and back to the U.S. AC