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Small business owners on damage from Trump's tariffs

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President Trump 's 145% tax on Chinese imports hit small business owner Beth Benike .

Benike started a Minnesota company that designs and sells placemats and utensils for babies and toddlers.

"I've been telling all of my friends and family that anything you want for Christmas , to get it right now," she says.

Just last week , she was recognized for her company's success while she worried about its survival.

"I just sat there feeling defeated. Where I would've loved to have celebrated that, now I have to prove it," she says.

Still, she's drawing inspiration from a phrase she picked up in the military: Improvise, adapt and overcome.