Reiko Hirai

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199 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 27 Mar

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Marketplace All-in-One · Make Me Smart about the business of sake · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

So it actually works really nicely that they are.

Great.

Yeah, so actually, so we are a retailer.

So the importer, there's an importer and distributor and then the retailer.

So the bigger importers are definitely being hit by the tariff.

We, at the one point, we did not know what the prices were going to be for us as well.

However, you know, I think a lot of the importers and distributors are

has been absorbing or balancing to keep the small businesses going.

So for the importers and distributor that has some volumes, I'm sure they have a lot of adjustment that they had to make.

But for me, it did increase a little bit, but it did not hit as hard.

However, you know, there are some sake that comes in from smaller importers.

And then the smaller importers will have more impact due to the, you know, because of the tariff.

And so for those ones, you know, sometimes we had less coming in or the prices were challenging and things like that.

So it's been very challenging.

in stable, not stable.

And yes, it's a little challenging.

But the customer's been very understanding, especially in DC.

They understand local news is national news.

So they've been very understanding and been a great support for us, yes.

Yeah, so there's no right or wrong, you know, let's put it that way.

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