{"id":38440,"date":"2025-04-10T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-small-business-owner-says-china-tariffs-endanger-her-company-i-could-lose-my-home\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:16:33","slug":"us-small-business-owner-says-china-tariffs-endanger-her-company-i-could-lose-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-small-business-owner-says-china-tariffs-endanger-her-company-i-could-lose-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: \u2018I could lose my home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Benike, whose products are manufactured in China, is \u2018terrified\u2019 what Trump trade war will mean for Busy Baby<\/p>\n<p>Beth Benike knew the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> were coming.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a> veteran invented a placemat with bungee cords that hold toys or utensils, keeping them off the floor when babies toss them. It\u2019s one of several products she created for <a href=\"https:\/\/busybabymat.com\/pages\/about\">Busy Baby<\/a>, a company she runs with her brother. They are manufactured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/10\/trump-tariffs-small-businesses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Benike, whose products are manufactured in China, is \u2018terrified\u2019 what Trump trade war will mean for Busy Baby Beth Benike knew the tariffs were coming. The Minnesota veteran invented a placemat with bungee cords that hold toys or utensils, keeping them off the floor when babies toss them. It\u2019s one of several products she &#8230; <a title=\"US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: \u2018I could lose my home\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-small-business-owner-says-china-tariffs-endanger-her-company-i-could-lose-my-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: \u2018I could lose my home\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}