“These proposed increases in fabric costs…if passed onto stores and ultimately to our customers…will severely hurt our fabric sales and businesses. Please don’t let this happen or it will be putting a lot of small business owners out of...
“A tariff of 10% or higher on the import of packaging material under code 4811.51 would make our business uneconomic, and will immediately cast the industry we serve back into monopoly supply. This would be to the great detriment of American producers who are...
“Headwear is not known to be a commodity with a large profit margin as-is; imposing additional 25% duties on top of the current average 7% duties will, without a doubt, be passed on to US consumers, as China is the dominant supplier of these items.”
“The dimming effect of the Section 301 duties will be felt throughout our company and our workforce and deprive us of the ability to continue manufacturing our products domestically. If these tariffs were to be implemented, Hubbardton Forge would likely have to...
“We are a very small 36 year old headwear company that employees 42 people in rural Vermont. The proposed increases of an additional 10 percent tariff and or raising the tariff to 25 percent would put us out of business. Returning the production of our products...
