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US Toymakers Scramble to Adjust to Trump’s China Tariffs

Trade Uncertainty Paralyzing Business: Toymaker CEO

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America’s toymakers outsourced manufacturing to China in the 1980s to cut costs. Nearly half a century later, that decision could bankrupt them.

Almost half of the more than 400 US companies surveyed by the Toy Association, a trade organization, said that President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs on goods imported from China implemented in April will put them out of business within months.