Jonny Auping

1 week ago | ppai.org | Jonny Auping

President Donald Trump has increased tariffs applied to small parcels from China that were previously exempt under the de minimis loophole that he eliminated earlier this month. The United States will now tax imports of shipments priced up to $800 at the rate of 120% of their value starting May 2, the White House announced. That's up from the previous plan to levy a 90% ad valorem tax, Bloomberg reported.

2 weeks ago | ppai.org | Jonny Auping

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for countries who haven't retaliated against the United States. However, Trump has raised tariffs on China to a total of 125%, effectively immediately. The announcement comes on the heels ofChina's finance ministry vowing to impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods starting Thursday, April 10, in response to Trump raising tariffs on China to 104%.

2 weeks ago | ppai.org | Jonny Auping

The global trade war is about to intensify as President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on China by an additional 50% unless Beijing abandons its retaliatory duties of 34% on all U.S. imports, matching the new reciprocal tariff rate Trump announced on China last week. In a Truth Social post on Monday morning, Trump gave China until Tuesday, April 8, to cancel its plans to impose the retaliatory tariffs, which are set to take effect on April 10.

3 weeks ago | ppai.org | Jonny Auping

EpiHab began in 1958 as a nonprofit whose mission is to "provide meaningful employment to those with epilepsy and other disabilities in a safe and enjoyable environment." EpiHab was awarded a federal grant to open, and we have been providing "hand labor" ever since. What led your company to enter the promotional products market? In 1958, our first contract was with Motorola, where we served as a woodshop that built the large wooden shipping containers to send the supercomputers to NASA.

3 weeks ago | ppai.org | Jonny Auping

There is a flip side to the "don't be left behind" rhetoric of technology innovations. Once a tech concept gets big enough to reach the zeitgeist, people will try to sell it to businesses indiscriminately. You can't always assume that the one selling is concerned with whether the one buying actually needs it. One of the exciting aspects of January's PPAI Expo Conference was the massive crowds that showed up for the day's great sessions on automation and artificial intelligence.