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Toymakers are being walloped by tariffs.
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Tariffs are proving particularly burdensome for toymakers as around 80 per cent of toys sold in the US are made in China, the main target in President Donald Trump’s trade war.
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The Economist
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Times are bleak in Toyland. So bleak that Bratz dolls’ flowing locks are at risk.
“There is no American factory anywhere that can make hair for dolls,” fumes Mr Isaac Larian, boss of MGA Entertainment, the Los Angeles company that makes the fashion figurines. “What am I supposed to do? Sell bald dolls?”
