Between a dream deal and tariffs, one U.S. business owner is at a crossroads

By Alina Selyukh

Published April 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM EDT

Number crunching is what small business owners around the U.S. are doing now, assessing the costs of President Trump's tariffs on imports. For one business owner, a dream deal is at stake.

Alina Selyukh

Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she follows the path of the retail and tech industries, tracking how America's biggest companies are influencing the way we spend our time, money, and energy.

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