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Kansas furniture store owner on being forced to shutter due to tariffs: "We decided to liquidate everything"

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My Home Contemporary Furniture in Merriam , Kansas , is closing in August .

Owner Henrik Svendsen says he has paid about $162,000 in tariffs since the president launched his trade war.

He says 99% of his furniture is imported, and 50% of that imported inventory comes from China .

Svenden says the tariffs are making the furniture he sells unaffordable to import and unaffordable.

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