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Yes in general, but it's not really economical for Lego to stand up a manufacturing facility in every country they sell in. If their current factory produces enough parts to meet their needs it doesn't make any sense to open new factories just to skirt tariffs. It wouldn't be a problem in the first place if the tariffs weren't ridiculously high. You can't blame Lego for not wanting to saddle their customers with tariffs on something that's free to people living in sane countries.
Lego already makes shit all over the world. Look at the back of one of the big kits and there’s a wildly long list of countries of manufacture.
They probably even make some parts here in the US.
The problem is they have tons of parts, and only one or two factories making any given part (other than really common ones maybe). They would have to duplicate each individual mold to have wholly state-side supply. That’s where it becomes impractical.
They would probably have to try to figure out what they were paying for each part from a different country of manufacture, and that would also be a nightmare.
It seems like they have 3 manufacturing regions:
https://brickhobbyist.com/where-are-lego-factories-located-with-video-tour/
Also pick a brick probably ships from a Danish warehouse, so it's all manufactured in the EU.
I'm pretty sure that Danish shipping companies simply don't want to deal with the new Trump bureaucracy.
The Danish postal service has stopped all shipments to the US:
https://www.postnord.dk/postnord-i-danmark/presse-og-medier/nyheder/2025/postnord-satter-midlertidigt-visse-forsendelser-af-varer-til-usa-og-puerto-rico-pa-pause/