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After reading Matt Grant’s comments on the tariff turmoil, I have to sew much agreement with him, it’s almost stitched into my DNA.
The reality Matt lays out is seam-ingly obvious: while the idea behind the tariffs may be to mend America’s manufacturing and intellectual property woes, the execution has left smaller companies like Sailrite caught between a bobbin and a hard place. When it takes 300 machines sold just to cover the tariff on one container, you can tell the threadbare margins are being pulled tighter than a sail in a hurricane.
I wholeheartedly agree with Matt, it’s high time the fabric of this strategy be woven fairly. Large corporations shouldn’t get to hem and haw their way out of the pain while small businesses carry the full weight of the loom. If the goal is truly to protect American innovation, then everyone, from the big tech titans to the small manufacturers, needs to pull their weight on the same needlepoint.
Matt’s realistic but cautiously hopeful approach, keeping a year’s worth of parts stocked and planning ahead, shows he’s not just sitting around waiting for the winds to change. He’s a straight stitch in a world of knots and tangles, but very few small business can afford or has the space to keep that kind of inventory on hand.
Here’s hoping the trade war doesn’t end up unraveling the hard work of businesses like Sailrite. After all, it’s folks like Matt who help keep the entrepreneurial spirit in stitches, in the best way.