{"id":168581,"date":"2025-11-07T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:10:09","slug":"how-trumps-tariffs-are-crushing-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168581\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s tariffs are crushing small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. small businesses <\/a>are reeling under the weight of President <\/strong>Donald <\/strong>Trump<\/a>‘s tariffs.<\/p>\n

Unlike large retailers, many of which have the resources and scale to blunt the effects of higher costs, many small companies facing bigger tariff bills are struggling to survive.<\/p>\n

Eunice Byun, the CEO of Material Kitchen, a small business that sells kitchenware for the home, said <\/strong>the complexity of her supply chain has increased tenfold.<\/p>\n

“We’ve definitely taken it on the chin year-over-year in terms of our top line revenue,” Byun told CNBC.<\/p>\n

Anjali Bhargava, the owner of Anjali’s Cup, which sells chai concentrate and turmeric blends, said the current economic climate and tariffs are threatening her livelihood.<\/p>\n

“It’s been really frustrating because I don’t have the resources to stockpile,” Bhargava said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has about 36 million small businesses, according to the Small Business Administration, which account for about 43% of U.S. GDP.<\/p>\n

So what impact are tariffs having on small businesses, and how are larger retailers able to skirt their impact? CNBC spoke with small business owners to find out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. small businesses are reeling under the weight of President Donald Trump‘s tariffs. Unlike large retailers, many of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[195,79,207,381,6619,356,179,18,19,17,790,6165,2001,82,4367,384,7808,480,6613],"class_list":{"0":"post-168581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-donald-j-trump","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-small-business","20":"tag-tariff","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-u-s-economy","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-video-first","25":"tag-walmart-inc","26":"tag-world-economy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115510471860917145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}