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At the same time, she said, the U.S. tariffs are pushing up costs for growers and eroding their already slim profit margins.

Taken together, it’s a trade war roller coaster that has business owners around the region scrambling to comprehend the effects on their profit margins and plot a viable path forward.

The tech giant's manufacturing profit margins are estimated to be between 40-60%.

The tariffs will shrink "already razor-thin profit margins", said the owner of a Chinese business that handles cross-border logistics for e-commerce, as well as air and sea freight.

In the years following, inflation led to slimmer profit margins.