Local businesses are having to adjust to changing economic policies

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Flip-flopping economic polices are leaving many local mid-to-small businesses trying to map out their futures.

And the changing tariff strategy is adding to their worries.

Business leaders said uncertainty is the big issue, but something they’ll have to adjust to.

Travel season is near and since 1972, All-American Coach Co. in Sylvania has been a leading supplier of campers for the Toledo area.

“We obviously sell these new campers here as well as a selection of pre-owned, and providing service and parts to our customers throughout the lifetime of ownership,” sales manager William Dickerson said.

With the economic uncertainty, he says customers are considering their options.

“A lot of our customers are taking at least a good inventory of where they’re at and what they want to be doing and slowing the process down a little bit,” Dickerson said.

He adds, All-American Coach Co. is doing their best to adjust to whatever comes down the pipeline.”

“I know what I have costs and what we need to sell it for,” Dickerson said. “But I do know with everything coming through the pipeline here, I’ve already had communication with my vendors and I know for a fact that the next time I get inventory here, anything that I’d ordered after the beginning of this month, it will likely have a cost increase on it.”

Additionally, he said they are willing to work with customers if price increases do hit because transparency is important.

“If I can make sure that we’re all on the same page, we’re all more likely to have a better time,” he said.

With warmer weather on the way, businesses are hoping consumers don’t pull back despite the economic unpredictability.

“At the moment, it’s a constant moving target; we can only take the information we get and make the best possible decision, obviously for us and our customers,” Dickerson said.

According to recent polling by Quinnipiac University, 72 percent of voters think tariffs will hurt the economy in the short term, while 53 percent think the tariffs will hurt the U.S economy in the long run.

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