MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't faced in our 170-year career," company president Simon Perkins said at a May 28 roundtable on tariffs hosted by U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont.
At Orvis's flagship rod shop and factory, Perkins said the Trump administration's shifting policies have not given businesses enough time to adapt their sourcing and manufacturing models to absorb the shock of tariffs.
"It's really hard for a business to respond quick enough to make it work," Perkins said. "That's when prices for consumers, that's when American jobs, that's when American manufacturing, that's when that gets put at risk."
Welch said he aims to highlight business leaders impacted by new tariff policies through roundtable discussions around the state. American business owners and consumers will bear the costs of tariffs, which Welch claimed are analogous to the "biggest tax increase in decades."...
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