Virginia entrepreneurs on Trump’s dodgy tariffs: ‘It disrupts your business’

By: Jim Spencer

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: March 16, 2026

Words: 930

Last Updated: 5 days, 3 hours ago

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In 2025, Sarah Wells Bags, a small Virginia business, made $500,000 less in revenue than it did in 2024, founder Sarah Wells told me. Wells attributed that downturn to disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s legally suspect tariffs.

Refunds of unconstitutional tariffs paid by companies across Virginia and the country will not come soon — if at all — to Wells and millions of other business owners, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s Feb. 20 …

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