New York – Cancel the main order. Product containers are trapped abroad. There is no roadmap for the next key.
The Trump administration raised tariffs on products from China early April to 145%. Since then, small businessmen who depend on imports to survive China have become increasingly desperate because they are reducing the eye -catching list and sky -touch shipment.
President Donald Trump seemed to be a little behind last week when he said he hoped that the tariffs would be “enough”. It helped to close a rally in the stock market. However, for small businesses that work on the razor-thin margin, the rear and front cause a lot of rise. Some say they can be just a few months after they are completely out of business.
According to the toy Association, most games and toys sold in the United States are made in China, especially sensitive to tariffs.
The WS Game Co., located in Manchester-C-C, Massachusetts, is a family-owned business that gives the Husbro board games licenses like exclusive, candy land and scrubby and produces a deluxe version of them. Its most popular lines come into the boxes that look like a vintage book and sell for $ 40.
The company’s games were displayed on the list of favorite things in 2021 and sold to Mum-pop stores, starting from large national chains at 5,3 stores in North America, said Malik Jonathan Silva, whose father founded the company in 2000.
All the WS games are produced in China. The tariffs have stopped screeching the last 25 years of healthy growth.
Over the past three weeks, the WS game has three containers worth $ 500,000 trapped in China. It has lost orders from the largest three retailers of $ 5 million million million million million million dollars in the United States. And Silva can’t do much about it.
“As a small business, we do not have the ability to remove production on the runway or a jerk,” said Silva, which has 22 employees. He said that the tariffs “have disrupted our business and left us at the doorstep of Insolvency” and assume that there is no change in the runway if there is no change.
“We really hope that cool heads are on,” he said.
Jeremy Rice is a home-deck shop in co-owned houses, Kentucky, Lexington, which specialize in artificial flower arrangements for home. Its business uses are made about 90% of flowers in China.
Rice uses a few dozen vendors. Some of the biggest tariffs are absorbing and passing the rest of the part. One seller is raising the price of 20% and the other 25%. However, rice is hoping that small vendors will increase the price a much higher percentage.
The house provides artificial flowers to mid-range. For example, a large hydrenzia head will retail between $ 10 to 16. China is the only place that manufacturers are high quality silk flowers. Rice said that it would take a seller to open a factory in another country or remove production elsewhere.
Rice ordered his holiday decoration earlier this year. However, even after storing before the tariff, it has only daily flower inventory from two to three months.
“After that, I don’t know what we’re going to do,” he said.
Rice is concerned that the trade war will erase a bunch of mum-o-pop stores similar to what happened in the great recession and epidemic.
“There is nowhere to be to the turn, nothing to do,” he said.
A tea shop in a city in Michigan College was also caught in the middle of the ongoing tariff.
“This is basically a large hole in my stomach,” said Lisa McDonald, owner of Thaus at the University of Michigan. McDonald sells Tehous Own for about 18 years and selling tea to customers across America
According to the US Tea Association, Americans served about 86 billion tea in 2021. Due to the factors from climate to expenditure, almost all of them are imported because tea is not large in the United States.
McDonald imports loose tea from China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka and other countries. He says his customer base is “all the United States and the world”. However, he has expressed concern that there is a limit to what they will spend. Its premium tea can spend up to $ 33 for 50 grams of bags.
“I don’t think I can take a $ 75 charge for a 50-gram bag for tea,” no matter how amazing the tea is, “he said.
If McDonald wants to use tariffs to encourage US production, Trump understands the argument, but says it does not apply to the tea industry.
“We can’t raise the tea as much as we need in the United States. We just flip the art in America and ‘Tea Great can’t do’ it can’t do it it is right,” he said.
The business of Jim Umlaoff, located in Oklahoma City, produces 4 cinnines dog owners and car seat cover and cargo liner for others. To do this, it requires raw materials like fabric, coating and ingredients from China.
Umlaoff has searched for production in countries other than China, when Trump first established 25% tariff on products from China, but came into complications. In the meantime, 4Knines absorb extra costs, which Umlaoff says that its growth has restricted its growth and its margin is pressed.
Now, doing new tariffs makes business almost impossible. There is a demand, but the company does not afford to bring more products.
Umlaoff said, “We only have a limited amount of inventory left and we will end soon without some relief.”
As a small business owner who worked hard to develop a high -quality brand, create jobs and contribute to the community, Umlaoff is disappointed. He has tried to ask for the help of small businesses with the White House and other decision -makers. However, he got a zero response.
“Policymakers have come to consider the full impact of trade policies on actual people, not just share prices or global competition,” he said.
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Detroit’s AP Video Journalist Mike’s housewife has contributed to this report.
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