{"id":433679,"date":"2025-12-08T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:08:17","slug":"us-main-street-businesses-expand-to-asia-and-beyond-as-tariffs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433679\/","title":{"rendered":"US Main Street businesses expand to Asia and beyond as tariffs bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade-war\/trump-tariffs\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Mom-and-pop stores target South Korea, Singapore to stay afloat<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205N Busy Baby Beth Benike &amp; her brother\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Busy Baby&#8217;s founder Beth Benike, right, began selling in South Korea to avoid U.S. tariffs. Her brother, left, has\u00a0left the company after four and a half years.\u00a0(Busy Baby)<\/p>\n<p>PAK YIU<\/p>\n<p>December 8, 2025 22:52 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; When U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs on imported Chinese goods cost Busy Baby&#8217;s Beth Benike more than $36,000 for a shipment of silicone baby mats in July, the financial pressures on domestic sales made her look at markets beyond the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs Mom-and-pop stores target South Korea, Singapore to stay afloat Busy Baby&#8217;s founder Beth Benike, right, began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3774,21131,64,10966,79,97531,2575,625,2175,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-433679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-bite","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-businesses","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-expand","14":"tag-main","15":"tag-street","16":"tag-tariffs","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115685053068600027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}