[rsynnott]

> They buy from local or state distributors who are national sized companies. They may or may not buy from China and Mexico.

And as a result of tariffs their costs go up (or they see supply disruption, delaying orders due to uncertainty), and so they _charge more_. Like, this isn't difficult.

Small businesses are sometimes more vulnerable to this sort of disruption than large businesses, precisely because they do _not_ have much control over their supply chain; if their distributor said "we don't know if we're going to have to pay $0 or $1000 or $50,000 tax on that container of widgets when it arrives in a month, and we currently sell it for $50,000, so we're just not going to order it", then the small business is potentially kinda out of luck; even if _they_ would have been willing to take the risk on paying more for the thousandth of a container they normally buy, the distributor may not be willing to take the risk on the whole container.