Sunny Kim, Owner, American Made Apparel Manufacturing:
Hi. My name is Sunny Kim. I own and manage American Made Apparel, which is a Denver-based cut-and-sew factory.
I would say tariffs, for the most part, have been, for me, in the immediate realm, more detrimental because I source a lot of my materials, threads, and notions from China. There’s a lot more inquiries, and possibly I could get more business from it. But, for now, I’m especially seeing a downturn as far as profit margin because my costs have gone up as well.
Chris Pence, Co-Founder and President, Haand Ceramics: I’m Chris Pence, and I’m the co-founder and president of Haand Ceramics in Burlington, North Carolina.
We work with a handful of restaurants and hotels in Canada currently or have been. Unfortunately, the Canadian business that we have has completely gone away, and the Canadian companies that we have been working with for many years are no longer interested in buying our products solely because we’re an American company.