Alexandria, Virginie – American retailers feel the president’s franc impacts Donald Trump’s prices on imports.
The owner of Virginia Toy Store, Amy Rutherford, says that 80% of toys are made in China.
“Even if we buy it from a French company, it is manufactured in China,” she said.
Rutherford warns that the rate of 145% of Trump on Chinese imports will soon be assessed its goods out of reach for most consumers. It used a plush animal as an example: it normally sells US $ 28, but prices will increase the price to almost $ 75.
“I wouldn’t pay $ 75 for that,” she said.
This is the same story at the bottom of the street of other Rutherford affairs: a stationery store, where greeting cards and Canada paper products are in the right place.
These products are temporarily exempt from the price threatened by 25% of Trump in Canada, but the risk of the return of rights is wreaking havoc.
“Certainness is not one thing we currently count on,” she said.
Time is exhausted to find clarity.
Summer is essential for small retailers, because it is when they plan and order the busy winter holidays – their brand or breakup months.
Do not know if the prices will return or what will cost imports, makes almost impossible to plan or buy.
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Worse still, Rutherford says that its suppliers in China have warned that they could not send anything to the United States unless the prices are abandoned.
“It is unaffordable for them and for us,” she said.
Beer bottles are ready to be filled in Port City Brewing in Alexandria, Virginia.
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The owner of the Bill Butcher brewery says that the prices have become an unwanted ingredient in his beer.
Port City Brewing in Alexandria, Virginia, relies on Canada and Europe cereals, Canada aluminum cans, mexico bottle caps and Germany barrels.
“The whole supply chain is so intertwined internationally,” said Butcher, “you can’t really say that I will only buy American ingredients to prepare for high quality beer.”
The Canadian barley malt he uses prosperous in the cold, but the prices have shown on imports.
Butcher says that its suppliers have warned it that the temporary break on Canadian prices has had no certainty.
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The impacts struck the breweries across the United States
Aluminum prices have increased the price of cans, and Butcher says that large multinational breweries have gone to glass bottles to avoid price increases. With only a handful of bottle producers in the United States, its small operation has been deleted.
“We were informed by our supplier of bottles about three weeks ago that they cut us,” he said.
Butcher said that consumers will finally pay the price of prices and the uncertainty that followed. He underlined the price of a six of his beer pack, currently $ 12.99.
“It could reach $ 17 or $ 18,” he said, while wholesalers mark their costs.
On social networksThe president called the businessmen who criticize his prices “bad in business” and said: “I am the greatest friend that American capitalism has ever had!”
The president argued that any pain will be temporary and said that the United States made “billions a day” from prices.
It is not the reality that small businesses see by browsing their registers.
Trump imposed, interrupted and retracted prices in surprise announcements and unexpected publications on social networks.
Business owners blamed these tasks outside everyone to create a harmful climate, which makes it impossible to plan.
“We just don’t know what we can absorb and what we can not,” said Rutherford.
Butcher said he had the impression that the White House had not thought much about the impacts that the prices would have on small businesses.
“There are ways to achieve your commercial goals without punishing small American businesses and without punishing American consumers,” he said.
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