A SMALL WOMEN-AWNED BUSINESS IN FOORIDA COULD TopPle Trump’s Tariffs – ryan

UNIL ABOUT A MONTH Ago, Emily’s Social Media Posts Consted Almost Entirely of Delicious Recipes and Photos of Idyllic Time Spent with Her Family.

But Since President Donald Trump Began to Impose Tariffs Ley Says Waled End Her American Dream, She Suddenly Found Hersself at the Forefront of A Fight Impacting the LivelihOods of Millions.

“I was seeing so Much Missinformation and Confusion About What Tariffs Are, Who Pays The Tariffs, and How Tariffs Impact Employees and Businesses and Consumers,” Ley Told Business Insider, “SO COUPLE WEX AGO, I DECIDE HAVE GOT TO SAYING AND SAYING.”

Aside from Being a Published Cookbook Author, an Influencer with More Than 230,000 Followers, and the mother of two young children, Ley is also the ceo of simple, a small Stationary in Florida Run by a team of nine. The Company Relations on Chinese Manufacturers to Produce Its Signature Planners for Busy Women – and Trump’s Tariffs Could Shut Her Business Down.

“I Posted on Instagram Just a Couple of Details Slides About What the Tariffs Are, How to Has Impacted Simplified, and How Much We have have in tariffs over the last few years – and it quit viral,” Said Ley. “I have the facts because i’m the one signing the checks.”

A Constitutional Challenge to Trump’s Tariffs

Ley’s Posts LED to a Call with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a Libertarian Legal Group. The Group Now Represents Her as a stakeholder in a lawsuit against Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and the Customs Protection Acting Commissioner R. Flores.

The Lawsuit Filed at the Northern District of Florida States that Trump has misused the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on all exports from china, as the law was meant for “Sanctions as a rapid respect to international Emergencies,” Which “does not allow a president to impress fees on the American.”

The IEEPA, A 1970s Law that Grants The President Sweeping Powers Only During an Economic Emergency, was invoked by Trump to Justify His Duties on Almost All Other Countries. SO if Ley’s Case SuCeeds, It Could undo All of His Tariffs.

“The Constitutional Power ‘to Lay and Collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises’ and ‘To Regulate Commerce With Foreign Nations’ Belongs to Congress,” Said John Vecchione, Senior Lithigation Counsel of NCLA. “The Administration’s Actions Followed None of the Constitutional Commands.”

AFTER Rounds of Retaliations, the US Tariffs on China Stand at 145%, while China’s Counter-Tariffs on the US Increas to 125% As of April 11.

The White House Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.

Ley Plass to ‘Go Down Fighting’

Ley Started Making Planners in 2012 AFTER AFTER HER FIRST CHILD AND REALIED THERE WERE NO NOTOBOOKS OUT THAT HER NEEDS AS A WOMAN JOGLING MANY TASKS.

Her first instinct was to work with a manufacturer close to home. Howver, It Cost $ 38 Each to Make the Basic Planner Domestically, so even thiugh and priced at $ 50 each and sold out an initial run, she was left with no profits after deductting other and business expensses from the balance.

AFTER A YEAR OF LOOKING FOR AN AFFORDable US Manufacturer, Ley Began Working With Factories with Ethics Certifications in Shenzhen, A Southern Chinese City, in 2013. Simplified Now Has More than 50 Different Planner Designs, Between $ 20 and $ 60 Each. The Production Cost of Each Planner is Around 25% of the Price Listed on the Simplified Website.

“We were only able to grow kids china has the infrastructure to do all of the Things we want to do with Our Products, Like Having Gold Binding, Gold Corners, Pockets and Stickers, and Beautiful Keepsake Boxes for Packaging,” Said Ley. “That infrastructure just dosesn’t exist here.”

SINCE Trump’s First Round of Tariffs on China in 2017, Simplified Has Been Paying 25% in Tariffs, WHICH, AS OF JANAAR 1 THIS YEAR, COST THE BUSINESS UNTER $ 1.2 Million Over 8 years.

Now, with the prospect of a 145% tariff, the business would be paying anywhere between $ 830,000 and a million dollars this year alone. Ley Wold Be Looking at the “Scary Prospect” of Cutting Staff, Hiking Prices, or Shutting Her Dos If She Couldn’t Find a Domestic Manufacturer Capable of Making the Same Products.

“I did not have it on my bingo card for 2025 to the president, but i am proud to stand up as a small-Business owner, as a Women-Awned Business,” Said Ley. “If this is going to be the end for my company, i’m going to go Down Fighting.”