{"id":41083,"date":"2025-05-09T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/no-ones-buying-anything-now-how-tariffs-are-striking-a-blow-to-historic-chinatowns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:07:41","slug":"no-ones-buying-anything-now-how-tariffs-are-striking-a-blow-to-historic-chinatowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/no-ones-buying-anything-now-how-tariffs-are-striking-a-blow-to-historic-chinatowns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No one\u2019s buying anything now\u2019: how tariffs are striking a blow to historic Chinatowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already vulnerable from the pandemic and gentrification, Chinatown\u2019s immigrant-run businesses now face a trade war<\/p>\n<p>On a balmy afternoon last month, Amy Tran unboxed a delivery at Yue Wa Market, a small grocery and herbal medicine shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>\u2019s Chinatown that she opened 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The package contained two dozen units of Shou Wu Chih, a Chinese herbal concoction known to rebuild kidney function and promote hair health. The shipment arrived two weeks after the US implemented new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> on Chinese imports, so her distributor charged her $115, a $35 markup from her previous order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/09\/tariffs-california-chinatown-los-angeles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already vulnerable from the pandemic and gentrification, Chinatown\u2019s immigrant-run businesses now face a trade war On a balmy afternoon last month, Amy Tran unboxed a delivery at Yue Wa Market, a small grocery and herbal medicine shop in Los Angeles\u2019s Chinatown that she opened 17 years ago. The package contained two dozen units of Shou &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018No one\u2019s buying anything now\u2019: how tariffs are striking a blow to historic Chinatowns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/no-ones-buying-anything-now-how-tariffs-are-striking-a-blow-to-historic-chinatowns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018No one\u2019s buying anything now\u2019: how tariffs are striking a blow to historic Chinatowns\">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-41083","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\/41083","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=41083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}