US Edition’Nowhere to turn’: Small businesses dependent on imports from China are feeling more desperate
- Small business owners dependent on imports from China are experiencing rising costs and shipment delays amid escalating U.S.-China tariff tensions in April 2025.
- The situation stems from the Trump administration's tariff increases, with China facing up to 145% import taxes and limited suspension of reciprocal tariffs since February 2025.
- Businesses like Skogsbarn and Bateau Bridal Boutique report negotiating prices multiple times and facing product inventory uncertainties due to the ongoing tariff fluctuations.
- Jon Bittner noted that 70% of Alaskan small businesses saw supplier price hikes, with 60% passing costs to customers, reflecting tariffs' broad economic strain on small enterprises.
- These developments risk pushing some small businesses toward insolvency and highlight the urgent need for policymakers to assess tariffs' real economic effects on local communities.
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Board game companies will lose money under tariffs
The 145% tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by President Donald Trump will break the manufacturing model for board games, companies said. Both Leder Games in St. Paul and Atlas Games in Duluth are both pulling back investment while they figure out what they may be able to do.
“It Is A Full-Blown Crisis Already”: Farmers Cry Out For Help As Massive Financial Losses Pile Up And Demand For US Agricultural Products Disappears ⋆ Conservative Firing Line
The following article, “It Is A Full-Blown Crisis Already”: Farmers Cry Out For Help As Massive Financial Losses Pile Up And Demand For US Agricultural Products Disappears, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. China is normally the largest export market for U.S. agricultural products. In a typical year, we sell tens of billions of dollars worth of agricultural products to the Chinese, but now that door has been slammed shut thanks t…
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