You've seen the headlines. President Trump has spent the past few months of his second term in power steadily raising import tariffs. It's a move that – as well-intentioned as it may be on paper – has already begun to see wide-reaching economic impacts across countless industries, worldwide. In the case of China, where the majority of companies making the best board games source their manufacturing, along with many of the best card games, the numbers have truly gotten out of hand.
So what does this tit-for-tat economic standoff mean for the board game industry as a whole, and for you? How can we expect to be impacted as board game enthusiasts, and is there a way around it? As I've outlined in some of my previous posts on the topic, such as our airing of the most recent China-US tariff hikes, what the White House has dubbed an effort to "strengthen the international economic position of the United States and protect American workers" could stand to bring our beloved hobby industry to its knees. At least in part.
