In the world’s largest wholesale market, American customers have dried up as tariffs hit

Yiwu, China – hammers, hats and hair clips. Games, technology, socks, baseball caps and Christmas decorations. If it is a cheap manufacturer, this may be one of the largest wholesale market in the world in the Chinese city of Yiwu.

With the presence of 75,000 suppliers spread in six buildings, it was once one store for American companies, large and small, looking to buy cheap goods and export them to the United States

Today is on the confrontation line War Trade to President Donald TrumpAfter the US tariff for Chinese goods increased from 10 % to 145 %, the sellers told NBC News on Wednesday, their trusted American customers began to set up requests or completely cancel them.

Nicole Chang And her husband, Huang Vangishao, who manufactures Yiwu Download Associary Co. Hair accessories for the main brands that use the materials cut in the machine and handcraft, about 60 or 70 % of 6 million pieces were provided to the United States

But with the rise in definitions, she said that American customers like Target had stopped applications and have placed charging containers full of their products.

“They want to see what is happening in the future,” she said.

After the amazing trade partners and global markets in early April, when he announced a large group of The “mutual” definitions on imports Of more than 180 countries, Trump then stopped the 90 -day target tariff for most countries.

But it did not include China, which has been wounded at all, and since then imposing a retaliatory tariff of 125 % on American imports.

In Yiwu, the effects began to cause losses.

Chen Ginsai, seller The sale of the journalistic nails said that she does not believe that she is shipping anything to the United States “in the first half of this year” mainly “because export taxes have increased significantly.”

She said that the goods that were ready to ship were “sitting there,” adding that the customers did not ask them to absorb the additional costs of the definitions. “If I have to pay the tax, I will lose money. Our prices are already low, so the tax is definitely something that the customer must deal with,” she said.

It is a reflection of last year when the boycott, development and reform committee in Zhejiang Province, where Yiwu exists that the total value of import and export in the city amounted to 668.93 billion yuan (91 billion dollars), an increase of 18.2 % over the previous year.

With us trade is not certain, Some Yiwu traders said they are already focusing on markets in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East and Asia.

Meanwhile, Lu Genling sock seller said only about 10 % of her work was in the United States, “so we were not severely affected.”

She said: “Since the customs tariff, some customers asked me to help share the cost, but I will not do that because the margin is very thin,” adding that one of its American clients “told me that he was able to remove his store from his warehouse because people were notifying from him.”

“For us, we have ways to compensate for losses by selling to other markets,” she said. “But I feel sorry for the ordinary Americans, because they are the ones who pay for the increasing cost.”

One of the people who might have to push more to import to the United States is Vicky Eng, who said she has noticed that her agents in the United States have become “more frequent” since the introduction of definitions.

The Eng, who flew from Chicago with her sister Vivian Eng, 29, said to her hair and other accessories for her company, Adorro, that she sold them to American retailers, most of them in the Middle West and Florida.

“We have not raised prices since the announcement of the customs tariff because we do not want to jump the gun in a proactive manner with any increase in prices if this is not necessary,” said Angel, 30, said.

However, their customers are, they are He said, “They put much smaller size orders.”

Most of their customers “Since the introduction of the definitions,” Ing said that since the introductions of the definitions, it has become “a little more difficult” for people to work.

The Chinese sellers were “just like us.” She added. “They cannot get an empty store.”