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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Juno is the owner and founder of a skincare company called Bear Botanics. |
| 0:10.6 | He sells scrubs and body brushes, and two of his products he imports from China. |
| 0:16.9 | When did you start thinking about tariffs? |
| 0:19.7 | I started really thinking about them probably over over the summer, when Trump was campaigning. |
| 0:25.8 | And he loved talking about tariffs, particularly tariffs from China. |
| 0:32.5 | The word tariff properly used is a beautiful word. |
| 0:36.5 | One of the most beautiful words I've ever heard. It's |
| 0:39.4 | music to my ears. We're going to charge them, I'm telling you right now, putting a 200% tariff on, |
| 0:44.3 | which means they're unsellable. In other words, very simple. If you screw us, we screw you. |
| 0:55.0 | Trump believes tariffs will bring jobs and manufacturing back to the U.S. |
| 1:00.8 | But American business owners are wondering what impact these tariffs could have on their bottom line. |
| 1:08.0 | Like Jason. |
| 1:09.3 | I said there's a real chance here of tariffs going up, and yeah, we would be totally |
| 1:16.5 | impacted. |
| 1:20.1 | So on election night, Jason nervously watched the returns at a friend's place. |
| 1:26.3 | It's election night in America. |
| 1:28.0 | Voters are having their say, your say. |
| 1:30.5 | And the countdown is on to the very first day. |
| 1:32.4 | Once it was clear to Jason that Donald Trump was on track to win, |
| 1:36.9 | he knew he had to do something right then. |
| 1:40.8 | What did you do? |
| 1:42.2 | I started messaging my suppliers. |
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