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The federal government

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is being forced

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to return more than

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$165 billion

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in collected tariffs

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to domestic importers.

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What have the cost

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of the tariffs

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meant for your business?

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Yeah, last year was

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really challenging.

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It was unexpected.

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In my 25 years in coffee

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we've never even once considered

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a tariff on our coffee

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that we import.

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So it was a curveball

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and already in a

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challenging business climate

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where other costs are going up

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like health care

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shipping costs

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things like that.

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But this was just

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one more headache

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and again

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not being expected at all.

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We had to deal

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with these costs.

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One of the things that people

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don't quite realize is

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we had to pay for the tariff

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before we even got

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the product in the country.

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So, this is before

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we could even sell it.

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We had to borrow money

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to pay the tariff.

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So we were then paying

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interest costs

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on the money

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we borrowed for the tariffs.

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So all these things

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were compounding

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and just making it

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harder and harder for us.