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US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’ (www.theguardian.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28417170

The Minnesota veteran invented a placemat with bungee cords that hold toys or utensils, keeping them off the floor when babies toss them. It’s one of several products she created for Busy Baby, a company she runs with her brother. They are manufactured in China.

She expected and budgeted for about 20-30% tariffs this year. When the first round of tariffs came in at 10%, it was manageable. Then the rate on China crept up, then up again, to 54%. That was her “oh, shit moment”, but she thought she could weather it, she told the Guardian.

It didn’t stop there, though. It climbed up to 104%. She filmed a video of herself “mid-meltdown” over the extreme tariff, posting it on her social media.

Benike already paid about $160,000 to manufacture her products in China, and would have to pay more than that to bring them to the US. So for now, she’s trying to figure out other options: she could try to sell them overseas, or send them to another country to repackage them.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

Petit bourgeois nerds in shambles

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

What a state the west is in when the "small business owners" are essentially people who made a blueprint of a thing that they order from China to make profit from.

I bet these come with some sort of "Designed in the USA" label just like everywhere else in the exploiter zones and cost you an arm and a leg because they are "local business".

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure it's more than just one small business.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

or send them to another country to repackage them

I like how the "pretend it was actually made somewhere else" loophole still exists.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

The government buys a lot of things it couldn’t buy without this.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Leopards eating a lot of faces right now. I'm worried this is going to cause a fat leopard problem

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I'm excited for when the leopards eat the libs making leopard jokes.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Small business owner

And I'm not reading any furthernot-listening

JDPON Don going after the kulaks now lol.

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is proof Trump is not a fascist I fear

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

not my problem

[–] D61@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Guess I'm just going to have to use shoe laces to keep my kids utensils from hitting the floor.

shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

😔