There are companies that are trying to get Trump to stop the tariffs
The tabletop game makers and small businesses suing against the tariffs on China: A lawsuit filed on Thursday with the U.S. Court of International Trade
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the administration is looking at reducing the tariffs on China.
A group of tabletop game makers and other American small businesses are filed a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald Trump and his administration to attempt to stop his tariffs. The lawsuit alleges the tariffs are “unlawful and unconstitutional” and details how they are creating challenges for the plaintiffs’ businesses.
Other plaintiffs in the case include Princess Awesome, a clothing company, Mischief Toy Store, a toy store based in Saint Paul, MN, and others. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday with the US Court of International Trade.
Stonemaier Games is a company that is involved in the lawsuit, as per a report by Polygon. A lawsuit shows that the tariffs imposed on goods imported from China are a significant part of the burden.
Tinkerhouse is producing a “tabletop roleplaying game accessory” in China that the company has made a down payment on. The company estimates it will have to pay “substantial tariffs” on when it imports the accessory later this year. It also expects that it has to pay tariffs on “all future imports.”
Such a communal approach is the hope for Luis Garcia, 25, in Guadalupe, Calif., who recently started playing the Manga card game One Piece in a game shop at a local mall. Mr. Garcia, who does not currently have a job, has spent about $500 on a few sets of cards, which are imported from Japan, since picking up the game in December. He wants his group to stop playing with the new card sets if prices go up. He said he would not buy a box that went up to more than $145.
People have maintained hobbies through hard times before — underemployed Americans with extra free time tinkered through the Great Depression, wove through the 1970s economic downturn, gardened through the 2008 financial crisis and weathered the sourdough-scented Covid recession.
In-depth analyses of tariff news and heated political debates are hosted on hobby forums which are normally used for trading knitting patterns and sharing photos of new projects. Ben Schinkel, an avid gaming fan who voted for Mr. Trump, said that he did some research into tariffs, which he thought was a good idea if we can get better deals for things from other countries. But he said the tariffs will most likely make him more selective about which video games he buys, and he would draw the line at $90 for a new game — unless it was a new Mario or Zelda game. (Many new games now cost close to $70, and Mr. Schinkel pays around $20 a month for an Xbox Game Pass subscription.)