Great to hear that your corporation was able to source supplies in the US. Good for you.

We, however, cannot. Quality, commercial-grade resin 3D printers and their repair parts are not made here in the US. There are several filament printers made here in the US but there are no domestic sources of resin 3D printers. I'd love to buy commercial grade resin 3D-printers made entirely in the US. I'd have done so many years ago. But they don't exist.

Saying "time to source domestic vendors" is like asking people to buy of bananas grown in Montana.

So there are actually two very serious problems for many US-based 3D-printing companies like ours at the moment, both problems directly caused by the imposition of the tariffs: increased costs and supply disruption.

So no, the new tax is not ours "to pay if we so choose". We are compelled to pay it. And with deep regret, we'll have to pass that cost on to our valued customers because we can't afford to absorb that cost and remain in business. The tariff percentages are higher than our markups. Our experience during Covid has taught us well that there will be huge and painful second- and third-order effects by raising our prices. Most importantly, raising prices costs us sales because it can badly affect customers, especially those on tight budgets.

Supply disruption caused by foreign postal services suspending small shipment package shipments to the US means that we're having great trouble obtaining the necessary repair parts needed to keep our printers running. We hope that problem will soon be resolved. Fingers crossed.

Furthermore, note that our overseas competitors, especially those in China and Europe, are not having to pay the tariffs imposed by our government or have their supply chains disrupted like ours have been. Overseas 3D-printing vendors with a mostly foreign customer base can continue to operate as usual and they don't have to raise their prices to offset any new US-imposed tariffs. This stability for those foreign competitors, and lack of stability for us, further intensifies competition with those competitors, perhaps to the breaking point, by putting US 3D-printing vendors at an extreme disadvantage.

For 3D-printing, the tariffs only help vendors who source machines and consumables outside the US and who have a predominantly non-US customer base. Who is that? Chinese 3D-printing vendors.

The tariffs are a huge gift to our overseas competitors with a foreign customer base. We do recognize that some of our overseas competitors who heavily rely on US sales are also badly harmed by these tariffs. We wish all of them the best and hope these harms pass soon.

At first, we were wrongfully told that tariffs were just a negotiation tool, a bluff that would not actually happen. Then we were told that tariffs would protect US businesses and industries. But for us, the exact opposite is true. Tariffs benefit our foreign competitors. And to add insult to injury, we continue to be told that foreign governments pay these tariffs, not us, and therefore there has been no cost increase in a breathtaking display of gaslighting. Clearly, our government thinks we're stupid.

Thanks for your sympathies.