Unedited letter from our supplier. We provide this as full transparency in our pricing.

July 8, 2025

When we increased our prices due to tariffs on April 19th this year we were hoping that things would remain more stable after that. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. Since our last price increase, there has been 10% more added to tariffs on products from China. There has also been an additional 25% added on some steel and aluminum products that already had a 25% tariff added to them this spring. Reciprocal tariffs on products from countries other than China were also announced in early April at some pretty high levels, but then most of them other than Chinese products were reduced to 10% which has been in effect since mid-April now.

We began to pay these higher tariffs by mid-May on all arriving containers. We have held off on passing on any of these costs for nearly two months now, but unfortunately, we must now increase our prices to cover these cost increases. This new round of price increases will go into effect on July 21st, 2025. We have been in contact with all of our foreign vendors and asked them if there is anything they can do to help us with these new higher costs. We explained to them that higher prices are likely to result in lower volumes of their products being sold. Many of our vendors have sacrificed their margins now in order to help us out. Instead of passing on the full 10% additional tariff increases mentioned above, we have been able to reduce most of the increases to 5-8% instead.

It looks like tariffs are going to continue to change and this week many changes are being announced once again. Unfortunately, they all seem to be going up even more. We will continue to monitor the situation, but if these new even higher tariffs remain in place for a couple more months there will need to be even more price increases to cover these higher costs.

We have not yet done any price increases on the Airflyte line at this time, but will be forced to increase prices on the imported products soon, likely in August. Watch for announcements on this and timing. It is also likely that we will continue to get more price increases from domestic suppliers as well. Continue to monitor our website where we are keeping a page up to date with all of the changing prices and effective dates by product line for you.

We will continue to accept orders for stock products at the current prices for immediate shipment until the prices change on July 21st, 2025