{"id":19434,"date":"2025-10-28T03:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19434\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:06:16","slug":"tariffs-cause-some-tattoo-shops-to-scramble-for-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19434\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs cause some tattoo shops to scramble for supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0The Trump administration\u2019s tariffs on Canadian goods, imposed earlier this year, forced some suppliers to the north to stop shipping products to the United States.\u00a0That\u2019s making it harder for some tattoo shops to get the supplies they need.<\/p>\n<p>A Rochester tattoo parlor owner found that out recently when he went to re-stock. The pop-up on his laptop tells the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what I was greeted with,\u201d said Adrien Moses Clark, owner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/axeofkindnessroc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axe of Kindness Tattoo<\/a>\u00a0in Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>When he went to place an order from a longtime supplier based in Canada, the message on the site said, \u201cAttention U.S. artists. You will not be able to check out today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason given: U.S. tariffs on Canadian products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely caused just a little bit of a scramble,\u201d said Clark, who has been a tattoo artist for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Clark orders from two suppliers in Canada, he says, because of the quality and the price.\u00a0Products are subject to tariffs, which those suppliers say they can no longer absorb.\u00a0Trump\u00a0said on Saturday that he plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/rochester\/international\/2025\/10\/25\/trump-canada-extra-tariffs-ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods<\/a> by an extra 10% because of an\u00a0anti-tariff television ad\u00a0aired by the province of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have definitely noticed an increase in some different prices,\u201d said Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Clark says he preemptively stocked up on tattoo supplies before tariffs took effect earlier this year.\u00a0He didn\u2019t anticipate this situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not at all,\u201d he said. \u201cI did not expect this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark says he has been able to buy different items from American suppliers who are also charging more.\u00a0It&#8217;s a cost increase he says he is not passing on to clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cost, what I charge, is based on my experience and my skill level,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cNot on my products.\u00a0If I take a hit on my products, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark says the tariff situation is an inconvenience more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI typically just kind of roll with the punches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0The Trump administration\u2019s tariffs on Canadian goods, imposed earlier this year, forced some suppliers to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,3478,288,4275,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,115,4274,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-19434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-local-politics","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-rochester","21":"tag-seth-voorhees","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}