{"id":130619,"date":"2025-06-05T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130619"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:21:58","slug":"at-least-were-not-out-of-business-small-companies-in-the-trump-tariff-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130619","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At least we\u2019re not out of business\u2019: small companies in the Trump tariff era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2017, tired of supporting other people\u2019s entrepreneurial dreams and watching e-commerce take off, Matt Rollens started Dragon Glassware in his garage with US$10,000 from savings and a small inheritance. A tea drinker, his first idea was a glass vacuum flask. But the prototype fell short, so he settled on drinking glasses as the US microbrewery craze exploded.<br \/>\nOver the next eight years, he built ties with skilled Chinese factories and expanded into licensed Barbie and Wicked drinkware as&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3313257\/least-were-not-out-business-small-companies-trump-tariff-era?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2017, tired of supporting other people\u2019s entrepreneurial dreams and watching e-commerce take off, Matt Rollens started Dragon Glassware in his garage with US$10,000&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}