Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
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What are the effects of tariffs on small businesses?
Das hat uns fast während Covid-19 beendet. Ja, genau. So anyhow, I get a call from my wife about three days ago. Now we're still paying on many of our, I know, Amy, this is going to shock you. We're actually still paying COVID surcharges from 2021 and 2020 today. So she calls me and she's beside herself. And we had just gotten two pallets delivered to us of bottles.
How did COVID-19 impact Denver's distillery?
She goes, honey, I got to tell you something. I'm like, oh, because we just got a retroactive tariff charge. What? Yeah. Yeah, our bottle prices went from $1.01 a bottle to $1.55 a bottle. So they're preemptively jacking up the prices on you. Is it because of the uncertainty? I think when you see instability... Ja, genau. So that's interesting, right? And we're really angry about it. The issue is, you can't accept, they won't let you accept the bottles unless you pay. It's not like we can just say, oh no, we want the original price. It doesn't work that way. And you're like, well, why is that so bad? When you're working on small margins, there's a cascading effect to employees. You got a budget. So there's a couple things I can do. Number one, Right. We try to. There's three things. We just we try to go with existing inventory until we think things are going to go better. It's really hard, really hard. Maybe we can make it through. The second thing is you decrease labor. Right.
You fire people. Yeah. Right. Good job. Third thing is, you pass the cost on the consumer. Now, we're not even to tariffs yet, but people are like, oh, wait a minute, tariffs haven't happened, retail Denver and Christine. How dare you? We're already getting charged on supply chains, just not bottles. It's corks. It's shrink wrap. People have no idea, right?
What are retroactive tariff charges?
Corks, shrink wrap are specialty bottles. Wax. I think what a lot of people maybe don't realize, and I didn't even realize it until now, is we read about tariffs and oh, when they go in effect and this is who they're going to impact. But the reality is, it's already impacting. Because it's the uncertainty of this man in the White House who doesn't know what he's doing, who's just throwing everything into upheaval. And that has cascading effects. Even if tomorrow he waved his wand and said, I'm just kidding, I'm not going to do these tariffs. It's already having a damaging effect. What's he going to do the next day though, Amy? He's going to change his mind again? This is a guy who doesn't pay his vendors. A guy who I don't actually think understands supply chains. You know, people think car building, oh God, complex. You know, you think about Ford.
Ford, the day that he came out with the tariffs, they had their stupid thing where they came out and said, oh, you could buy our vehicles at employee prices. Guess what Ford just announced yesterday? We're going to have to up our prices. We knew that was coming. We're building stuff like the, oh, come on, right? The reason they could do that at that second is they were hoping to dump inventory.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the effects of tariffs on small businesses?
1:14–1:52
2
How did COVID-19 impact Denver's distillery?
1:52–3:53
3
What are retroactive tariff charges?
3:53–6:09
4
How do tariffs affect supply chain costs?
6:09–6:55
5
What instability do businesses face under current tariffs?
6:55–9:21
6
Why is the uncertainty of tariffs problematic?
9:21–10:37