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How Trump’s huge tax hike may bleed small companies dry

Editorial Board Published August 15, 2025
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Small companies are the USA’ financial engine, producing greater than half of the nation’s new jobs previously 5 years. However President Donald Trump’s tariffs are about to slam them with a devastating tax enhance—one which huge firms can extra simply dodge because of armies of attorneys and compliance officers.

The Chamber of Commerce estimates that there are about 236,000 small enterprise importers—corporations with fewer than 500 staff—that collectively introduced in additional than $868 billion value of products from overseas in 2023. It additionally calculated that Trump’s tariffs, which took impact Aug. 7, will price these corporations $202 billion yearly. 

That’s a mean hit of $856,000 per agency, per 12 months.


President Donald Trump asserting his first spherical of tariffs on April 2.

For a lot of of those companies, the monetary ache is just a part of the story. New customs crimson tape, whereas manageable for multinational firms with devoted groups, is a bureaucratic nightmare for small operators. So the Chamber of Commerce and the Nationwide Retail Federation—are sounding the alarm. 

However right here’s the kicker: The Chamber of Commerce poured cash into the GOP, and the NRF—whereas much less lively—additionally gave principally to Republicans, too.

It might be good if these organizations would lastly be taught that the GOP isn’t the “pro-business” occasion in spite of everything. And customers? They’ll be selecting up increasingly of the tab. 

In April, Trump breezily claimed that China would “probably eat those tariffs.” However Goldman Sachs crunched the numbers and located that international exporters solely take in about 14% of tariff prices, whereas U.S. corporations shoulder 64% and customers pay the remaining 22%. It additionally warned that, by October, corporations will hit their breaking level and cross two-thirds of the prices on to customers.

However, in fact, Trump’s response to this inconvenient math has been to assault the messenger. 

“David Solomon and Goldman Sachs refuse to give credit where credit is due,” he wrote on Fact Social. “They made a bad prediction a long time ago on both the Market repercussion and the Tariffs themselves, and they were wrong, just like they are wrong about so much else. I think that David should go out and get himself a new Economist or, maybe, he ought to just focus on being a DJ, and not bother running a major Financial Institution.” 

The truth is that Trump’s tariffs aren’t about defending U.S. jobs or punishing China; they’re only a huge, regressive tax that can bleed small companies dry and ship costs hovering for the remainder of us. And due to Trump’s newest spherical of tariffs, even DJ gear is getting hammered, in order that’s now not the viable alternate gig Trump thinks it’s.

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