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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno's artifact and crippled sellers are uncertain astir however they'll support their doors unfastened arsenic President Donald Trump's 145% tariff connected China goes into effect.
"There's a fearfulness determination of what happens if we can't marque it," said Jennifer Ward, owner of Crazy Squirrel Game Store.
A large treatment among crippled sellers and distributors is whether they should bargain untaxed products successful bulk. But that would mean they would person to screen the outgo of months' worthy of supply, and there's uncertainty astir whether the items volition inactive beryllium successful play months down the line.
Ward says that astir 80% of her store's products are imported from China. She breaks down however these tariffs volition jack up the prices for games and different imported goods. "If games are going to outgo the publishers more, and that's what tariffs are, whoever's importing it is going to wage it, past those publishers are going to summation their terms to the distributors, and past those distributors are going to summation their terms to me."
Ward plans connected absorbing overmuch of the outgo to support her customers, but it's not sustainable. "I person employees I person to pay," she said.
And she's not alone. Local crippled decorator Calvin Kammer, proprietor of Next-Gen Escape and Griffin Games, says some of his businesses are already affected. "I can't nutrient games anymore. I can't people thing new. It's benignant of devastating for us," Kammer shared.
Kammer understands the revival of U.S. manufacturing but says it can't hap overnight.
"Cutting america disconnected and making U.S. home lone successful specified a unsmooth and brutal way. I don't see however we tin get past this," helium explained. He says current production in the U.S. is excessively expensive. "For a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle to marque successful the U.S., it would outgo maine $17.99 to produce. However, crossed seas to marque that aforesaid crippled it would beryllium astir $3."
These businesses are exploring caller ways to make revenue. Crazy Squirrel Games has started hosting taxable nights and different events to pull much customers.
