This is actually a potentially really good idea.
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This is another that just happened. They said that they can’t afford to pay indefinite storage fees to warehouses in China while they wait for tariffs to hopefully go away.
It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we announce the closure of Boardlandia. This decision has not only been a difficult business one but has also deeply affected us personally.
Over the past few years, our business has faced a series of significant and increasing challenges. We have poured our personal savings, our time, and countless hours of hard work into Boardlandia, striving to overcome these obstacles. The recent tariffs have unfortunately added an unsustainable burden to these existing pressures, leaving us with no viable path forward.
The logistics of moving things through Canada make that complicated though. 2/3 of your population is in the East and anything coming in from the West has a long journey through pretty much one pathway where a distribution point that piggybacks off transport through the US brings that product to the population much more efficiently.
The coffee tariff is just dumb though (along with many others) when we can’t even grow that in the US. I’d suggest maybe there is an opportunity here in Puerto Rico but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump has tried to tariff them as well.
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hawaii
How much arable land is there on American Samoa? Exports NFL lineman currently.
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Hawaii coffee can be delicious, but barely enough makes it to the lower 48 to satisfy my personal consumption.
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Maybe with global warming Canada can grow coffee in Manitoba and we can work a new trade deal.
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This is partly why Canada logically developed north-south rather than east-west trade routes. Trump is forcing us to do illogical things though.
Funny how reality can even bite Trump.
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Sure, some grows there, but can they produce enough for the entire US?
then they need to up their game
there is no current infrastructure or capability for most the production trump thinks will come back to US
just like COVID vaccine distribution, he sets up what appears to be a good distribution system, but absolutely no infrastructure to receive it or get it to the people
I’ve unironically heard MAGAs claim that because Hawaii can grow coffee, we should just grow their coffee industry because the US “can produce everything it needs.” That’s the whole point of tariffs, to bring back American industry. Hawaii will be great again when it’s end-to-end filled with coffee.
Pointing out that Hawaii can’t produce nearly enough is un-American. You hate America and think it’s weak. But people also believed that the COVID vaccine made you magnetic, so I’m rarely surprised anymore.
Maybe y’all are tired of board game spam. It’s just one of many industries being squeezed, but this interested me:
A board game crowdfunding source is allowing creators to separate out extra charges for tariff sales taxes, to explicitly demonstrate the amount that they are charging versus Trump/Republicans taxing Americans.
I even saw somewhere that a variation of this particular conspiracy theory is that “Covid” is really just a code name for 5G, therefore 5G technology is bad too 
(something about how the 5G frequency is what activates the Covid “vaccine” microchips or something like that)
“There’s five letters in COVID; there’s five letters in GGGGG…”
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Illuminati Confirmed!!! 
Just turn United Fruit loose again, imo.
Trump reverting to his old tired narrative on Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-politics-1.7516951
I’m scrolling through Polymarket, and am disappointed to see that they aren’t taking bets on whether our Dear Leader refers to the leader of the winning party as “Governor” in his congratulatory (?) tweet.
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Have been catching up on my FT readings this morning and this one from GS caught my eye:
So import inflation (due to USD FX weakening) is running at about 1/3rd of the tariff related price increases that are now baked into US supply pipelines.