FT商學院

Trump’s tariff war comes to New York’s Chinatown

Chinese American small businesses are stockpiling goods to delay higher costs

Ever since Donald Trump’s imposition of 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese imports, Andy Wang has been panic buying supplies from rice wine to plastic containers for his restaurant in New York’s Chinatown. 

Wang said that the price hikes expected on Chinese goods could put the Taiwan Pork Chop House he founded 26 years ago out of business, and force him into early retirement.

“I have to stock up so I can keep operation costs stable for as long as possible,” he said in an interview in his restaurant basement surrounded by excess supplies. “Everything you see here, including some food ingredients, comes from China and the US either doesn’t have a substitute or has a very expensive one.”

您已閱讀15%(688字),剩餘85%(4024字)包含更多重要資訊,訂閱以繼續探索完整內容,並享受更多專屬服務。
版權聲明:本文版權歸FT中文網所有,未經允許任何單位或個人不得轉載,複製或以任何其他方式使用本文全部或部分,侵權必究。
設置字型大小×
最小
較小
默認
較大
最大
分享×