WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Like many Asian supermarkets nationwide, New Asian Market in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis is grappling with more aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports.
What You Need To Know
- Like many Asian supermarkets nationwide, New Asian Market in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis is grappling with more aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports
- Decisions come down to what’s affordable to stock
- Shen Xin Yu, who runs New Asian Market, has noticed that it’s hitting the older generations of customers the hardest. They’ve relied on New Asian Market to get the hard-to-get products from home that that they’ve used their whole lives
- With tightening trade restrictions on Chinese imports, Yu and his family – along with Asian grocery store and restaurant owners across the country – are bracing for the long-term impacts
“We’ve stopped ordering some of products just because the price went crazy high,” said Shen Xin Yu, who runs New Asian Market with his parents. “In order to make profit, we had to turn up the price even more, but at some point, it’s not even worth to get it anymore.”
Yu said decisions come down to what’s affordable to stock; sometimes that means losing beloved products…