Ruth Simon
Senior Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal reporter in New York covering small business and entrepreneurship. Contact me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Ruth Simon
Small companies account for one-third of U.S. imports; many owners say they can’t absorb price hikes or shift productionBusinesses of all sizes are struggling with President Trump’s new tariff regime, but small U.S. businesses are looking to be the biggest losers. Small and midsize companies account for $868 billion, or roughly one-third, of annual U.S. imports, according to the Census Bureau.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jason Douglas |Konrad Putzier |Ruth Simon |Raffaele Huang
The gloves are off. The next chapter of U.S.-China decoupling has begun. The pain will be felt everywhere. In jacking up his tariffs on China, President Trump is pushing the world’s two biggest economic powers into a battle that will leave neither unscathed and risks tanking the global economy. Dig deeper:
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jason Douglas |Konrad Putzier |Ruth Simon |Raffaele Huang
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1 month ago |
lopinion.fr | Ruth Simon
Le président Trump a estimé que son offensive douanière créerait « des petites perturbations ». Sauf que, pour les petites entreprises comme Quake City Casuals, elles ressemblent plutôt à de grosses turbulences.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Ruth Simon
President Trump says his tariff offensive could cause the economy “a little disturbance.” For small businesses like Quake City Casuals, the disruption has already landed like a thunderbolt. The Los Angeles headwear seller absorbed roughly half the cost of the president’s 10% tariff on Chinese imports in February and stockpiled an extra $500,000 of inventory before they went into effect.
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