Well, U.S. businesses are already facing tough challenges as a result of President Trump's

sweeping new tariffs.

We spoke with small business owners across the country to hear how they are being affected

firsthand.

Here's some of what they told us.

I'm Wendy Brew.

I own Dry Ridge Farm in Madison County in western North Carolina.

It'll affect us on everything from fertilizer to

construction materials to tractors, new equipment, but not just new equipment, like tractor parts,

all of our, all farmers do their own maintenance on their equipment. My name is Peter Andrews. I'm the

founder of culture Wine Company,

an importer, wholesaler, and focused on South African wine. Right now, I have a container that's leaving South Africa. That alone will probably be tariffed just because I missed it by about a seven

hour window to get it out. Hi, my name is Sunny Kim. I own and manage American Made Apparel,

which is a Denver-based cut and sew

factory. I would say tariffs, for the most part, have been, for me, in the immediate realm,

more detrimental because I source a lot of my materials, threads, and notions from China.

There's a lot more inquiries and possibly I could get more business from it. But for now,

I'm especially seeing a downturn as far as profit margin because my costs have gone up as well.

I'm Chris Pence and I'm the co-founder and president of hand ceramics in Burlington, North

Carolina. We work with a handful of restaurants and hotels in Canada currently

or have been. Unfortunately, the Canadian business that we have has completely gone away,

and the Canadian companies that we've been working with for many years are no longer interested

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