Jon-Mark Craddock hasn’t been sleeping well lately. Like entrepreneurs across the country, the owner and CEO of Spicewood-based La Matera, a line of belts, wallets, and watchbands, is experiencing nights haunted by one thing: tariffs. “It definitely is keeping me up at night,” he says.On April 2, President Trump announced sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs of 10 percent on all imported goods and additional tariffs on select trade partners, including China and the European Union. Then he suspended the additional tariffs (but not the ones on China) for ninety days, mere hours after they went into effect, and announced that various tech goods would be exempt from the China tariffs. He’s also gone back and forth on another slew of tariffs on cars, steel, and more, and…
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