The small business community in Reddit is afraid of Trump’s tariff

President Donald Trump claimed doubtfully that he wanted to be the heroine of the American working class, but his new commercial policies seem more likely to kill small companies and put many working men and women.

In fact, Trump’s tariff policies are not just terrifying Wall Street. They also scrambled by small business owners, and it can also be seen with a sudden abundance of comments on Reddit’s R/Smallbusiness Subreddit. There, small business owners can be seen as they are concerned about everything from the high import duties to the increasing costs that they will have to transfer to their customers.

One of the apparent business owners who recently requested aluminum parts of China expressed his surprise at the sudden escalation of import fees. User books “Eopcido”:

We have a small company and we requested $ 3,380 of aluminum parts from China. The parts of the United States of America entered on 3/31/25. DHL requires $ 2,483.21 to “import a duty” or will be re -sent the parts 5 days … Could this be true?

“You can expect to add 34 % to all future requests, with an additional 50 % increase after this week. This reaches the total possible increase to 156.5 %.”

“In the event that everyone is not discovered yet, Trump and his partners do not want us to buy anything from China anymore,” one of the other commentators.

Another Redditor, who said they have a retail store, Explain how They said that expected import rates can increase their business: “We are looking anywhere from 20 % to 60 %,” apparently referring to price increases. “This will destroy my work completely. I’m very worried.” Consider, these comments are coming before China added An additional tariff of 84 percent Tuesday night.

Pickle389 background, He said that It is possible that “their bamboo clothing will be closed due to the authentic increase in the costs stimulated by the definitions:

Does anyone have any American factories? I have destroyed that all the hard work will be pulled under it. I hit my 10,000 requests last week and I don’t know what to do now. A very small shop so that the cost of everything cannot be absorbed, but I know that raising prices is not possible because the cost of our living is about to rise astronomically.

Another user, coachelhopefull, explained his own tool with a European import company they built:

My uncle has a pottery studio in Poland, and my mother and I have been recruiting the product here in the United States over the past twenty years. We kept our breath waiting to see what the definitions would be. It appears to be 20 % for European products. We have a road to the United States now, 50 % of the product is already sold and we cannot change the prices on it. This will be harmful to our company and I don’t know what to do.

Discuss many users Add elements of the “tariff fees” line To their receipts so that customers understand that the increasing prices are the result of the economic policies of the Trump administration, and not the decline in random prices. In the thread of a small business owner, one of the commentators said: “Let people know that the customs tariff that is exposed to your high prices.

One misleading user made an unfortunate decision Create a post His colleague R/Smallbusiness asked whether they believe that Trump’s tariff would help small business owners. “Revenge was ruthless and fast.

“Lol”, published one user. “LMFAO.”

“This is a absurd stupid question,” and there is another.

Another added: “This will definitely help some companies.” “Mainly bankruptcy and pledge lawyers.”