When you mention tariffs, it's kind of reliving a nightmare.

You are planting a crop that takes four to five years to reach maturity

and really outlives a presidential election cycle.

And so you have to make plans and forecast for the future, but today is

very uncertain. These tariffs, Section 232 tariffs, have, in essence, leveled the playing field.

And we've had a pretty significant resurgence in our market. And our plants still here we're thriving now

we're back up over a thousand people we're working we're expanding we're making

more products that's that's only because there's a potential you know

expectation for a market to be there in the future well here's the thing we've

never exported before we're in the of, we're two months out of

shipping our first shipment. So it's already a very new process for us. We are a small company.

Taking a big leap like exporting is a little bit scary in itself. Doing it in a year like this

when there is so much fluctuation, what is going to happen with the tariffs? How is it going to

impact me? It definitely makes things a lot more stressful and challenging, I think.

Any American in the business of importing or exporting is experiencing tariff overload right about now.

You basically need a scorecard to keep up with what tariff is hitting which country.

But what is crystal clear is that so far, tariffs are the Trump administration's tool of choice,

used widely and frequently, with the stated purpose of protecting American

businesses and markets.

But as we heard in our first and second episode of the season, it's hard to know what President

Trump will decide tomorrow.

This is feeding the uncertainty that has roiled global financial markets.

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