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Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariffs

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68% Informative

Kevin Bates quit his day job and moved to China after his game-playing business card, the Arduboy , went viral in 2014 .

Bates says Trump ’s new 104 percent China tariffs will be the beginning of the end .

He says his company can no longer survive as-is, even if he wanted to, he says he wouldn’t be able to satisfy the goal of restarting manufacturing in the US .

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56

Informative language

45

Neutral language

64

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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