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Fear of a ‘coffin nail:’ How tariffs have hurt this Raleigh business


WATCH: For a year-and-a-half, President Donald Trumpโ€™s tariff policies have created uncertainty for American businesses and have increased costs for consumers on a host of products, critics say.

Andrew Ollum, the owner of Union Specialโ€”a bakery and cafรฉ in Raleighโ€”says that his family-owned business has been impacted by the uncertainty.

โ€œWe feel like we take two steps forward and three steps back sometimes, with inability to budget and to raise capital and to, just, understand where our future really lies,โ€ he told Cardinal & Pine after participating in a roundtable discussion with US Rep. Deborah Ross and other small businesses in the Raleigh area.

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