Hello everyone, I hope that the week has been going good for you. I wanted to pop on here and talk about the current state of this (and many other peoples') projects due to the tariff increase currently happening. 

For those who are not aware, our lovely (/s) president has been dramatically increasing the tariffs that US citizens have to pay for China goods to be imported. This affects many large and small businesses, myself included. While he recently inacted a 90 day suspension on tariffs for a lot of countries, China is excluded from that list, and instead the tariff fee increased to 125%+

For example, if I were to pay for an enamel pin project for $4k, I would get charged with a whopping $5k+ in just tariffs on top of that. It essentially doubles to cost of manufacturing as of right now. This does NOT mean that the project is cancelled, I want to make that VERY CLEAR. While I am extremely concerned for what is playing out in our economy in regards to tariffs on incoming goods, the situation keeps changing day by day, and it is completley unpredicable where we will be even this time next week. With that in mind, my manufacturer will continue to make the samples for me, and then we will go from there. We may have to delay shipping the product until this calms down. If it truly seems like there is no possible way that I can get anymore product from my manufacturers here, then I will gladly refund you.

I am not going to ask anyone to help cover the tariff costs, as I know some other makers have. I don't feel comfortable asking for assistance on something that is not your fault. We will figure this out! I only ask that you PLEASE have patience with businesses, big and small, as we navigate through these unpredictable times. 

As a reminder, please complete your surveys if you have not done so as well, that way I can have an accurate count of what I should order. 

Thanks!