Kerry Addis and her father, Dana Silva, were in China visiting factories in April when they woke up to the news that threatened to devastate their family board game business: President Donald Trump announced that new tariffs on Chinese imports would hit 145 percent.
The panic set in over breakfast: “What just happened?” Kerry, the chief operating officer of WS Game Company, recalled asking Dana, who oversees manufacturing. “How do we move forward?”
Such a steep import tax would hammer the family-owned business, which licenses board games — such as Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble and Taboo — from Hasbro to produce upscale and collectible versions that are sold at 12,000 stores, including Target, Costco, Barnes & Noble, Anthropologie and thousands of small retailers.
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