Several Valley business owners say they are already experiencing the pinch from the Trump Administration’s tariffs on imported materials.
Anna Martin, co-owner of Martin’s Steel in Mifflinburg, said the cost of aluminum has risen about 45 percent and steel has gone up about 30 percent since the tariffs took effect last month.
Mike Dupuy, a Middleburg falconer who invented and builds hawk houses and aviaries out of steel and aluminum, said the tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum have added as much as 21 percent to the cost.
He’s raising prices and said there’s been a noticeable slowdown in sales.
“People that would have bought are now hesitating. We’re losing business,” Dupuy said. “For small businesses like us, the tariffs are making a difference.”
They are for Leon Martin, owner of Orchard Hill Welding in Millmont, who said he’s losing contracts he usually would secure because of the higher cost.
Frank Leto, publisher of The Daily Item and The Danville News, said tariffs imposed on Canadian newsprint producers is causing “considerable harm” to U.S. publishers, particularly those in the Northeast that rely on Canadian newsprint.
This area went about 70-30 for Trump in 2016.
Anecdotal and mostly bs. Trump just handed these whiners a 40% tax cut. Why don’t the fools use this savings to offset the tariffs increase?
Simple answer is they are not just greedy, they are stupid to boot.
“said the cost of aluminum has risen about 45 percent and steel has gone up about 30 percent since the tariffs took effect last month.”
Wasn’t the aluminum tariff 10%?
Supply and demand will still have an effect and the increasing economy alone will increase demand and prices. People seem to forget that and blame it all on tariffs.