MANY BANDS AND ARTISS NEW AND OLD ARE BEING AFFEED BY THE TRADE WAR TARIFS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Sub Including Musicians and Bands Such As The Callous Daoboys and Brian Fair, Frontman of Shadows Fall and The Music Wholesale Distributor St. Louis Music.

First, Let’s Talk About This Affects You, The Consumer. Vinyl and Pvc Prices Will Most Likely Cost More To Import Import The Us. This has now Making Records Impossible to make or ship for cheap. A Great Example of This Came from The Callous Daoboys, Who posted This Screenshot to The Socials Earlier This Month:

SHIPPING TO THE USA AND MOST MAJOR Trade Markets Will Get More Expensive Even With Sub Tariffs Being Paused. Most Major Fabric Importers Will Make It Harder for ScreenPrinting Shops To Make Merch From China (34%), Vietnam (46%) and India (26%). While Through Research, union and USA MADE MERCH IS MUAN AS LITTLE BIT MORE COSTLY THAN IMPORTING AND SUBSTIMES CHEAPER; But Most Bands Don’t Know This. They Will Often Go With The Lessive Option. WHILE I WISH MOST PEOPLE WOLD GO WITH UNION MADE MERCH, MOST BANDS ON LABELS CANKO CONTROL HOW THING MERCH IS SOURCED, MEANING THAT TAIFF IS THEN PUSHED ON THE Consumer. I do, However, SeeSe Tariffs as an Opportunity to Source Ethical Merch.

INSTRUMENTS will be next to be affected by Tariffs, According to Brian Fair, Frontman of Shadows Fall and Sales Representative of St. Louis Music. On Threads, I posited:

“We have tried tovoid increase where Ever possible but a lot of it is unvoidable.” “Sub of these brands used to be made in the us but that prick them entirely out of the market so production shifted to overseas many Years ago.

“I Work Directly With Main St. Brick and Mortar Music Stores, Subuat Are Barely Scraping by. You are increasing, no Matter How Small, Will Make It Even More Difficul For these Stores to Survive.

Brian Fair (@BRIANSHADFALL) ON THREADS

I Work for a Company That Owns A Variety of Instruments Brands: Guitars, Percussion, Orchestral Strings, Brass, Woodwinds etc. Our Landing Costs Have Sky Rocketed and Those Costs Are Being Turned into Higher Prices That Will Be Un Fortunately Be Handed Down To The Consumers. We have tried tovoid increases where Ever possible but a lot of it is unvoidable. Sub of these brands used to be made in the us buty priced them entirely out of the market so production shifted to overseas many years

We Can Only Hope and Bear The Storm and Figh Back Against The One of Many of This Current Administration’s Failures.





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