Portland small business is 'literally stuck' after new tariffs imposedpublished at 21:28 BST
Ana Faguy
US reporter
Image source, Carley KingMike Roach and Kim Osgood
Mike Roach and Kim Osgood, owners of Paloma Clothing in Portland, Oregon, are preparing for one of their best-selling items to potentially increase sizeably in price.
Osgood creates designs that she has a Montreal-based company transfer onto pillows the couple sells in their store.
Those pillows are their best-selling gift item, retailing at $59. With the newly imposed tariffs, a normal markup would bring the price of that pillow to somewhere between $86 and $90, Osgood told the BBC.
"Gift items are really price-point sensitive; people have in their mind what they're going to pay for a gift, and they're not going to pay more than that," Roach said.
The couple, whose shop has been operating for 51 years, say they will likely hold the original price and hope the "tariff problem," as Roach calls it, gets worked out.
"It would be one thing if we had three months' notice; that would be something you could plan around, do some work with the vendors, but when it happens literally overnight you're really stuck," he said.
Image source, Carley KingPillows for sale at Paloma Clothing









