'Hard to keep lights on' - Business owners cautiously welcome tariff ruling

"I have a bit of reservation in too much celebration."

— Jenelle Peterson , Executive

"If the government is bound and determined to try to harm us through excessive taxes, I'm sure they'll find a way."

— Rick Woldenberg , Executive

"Although bringing an end to most tariffs will undoubtedly benefit Main Street, we know that tariffs have already caused significant and irreparable harm to many small businesses."

— John Arensmeyer , Executive

"The legal decision provides much-needed certainty for US businesses and manufacturers, enabling global supply chains to operate without ambiguity."

— David French , Executive

"We do not expect the market to have a sustained reaction to this news on its own."

— Lauren Goodwin , Executive

"I have a bit of reservation in too much celebration."

— Jenelle Peterson , Executive

"If the government is bound and determined to try to harm us through excessive taxes, I'm sure they'll find a way."

— Rick Woldenberg , Executive

"We hope that today's decision is a step forward for small businesses that need more certainty as well as relief from high prices in order to continue operating."

— John Arensmeyer , Executive

"We urge the lower court to ensure a seamless process to refund the tariffs to US importers."

— David French , Executive

"We do not expect the market to have a sustained reaction to this news on its own."

— Lauren Goodwin , Executive

"I'm ashamed of certain members of the court. Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country."

— Donald Trump , Politician

"It's my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests."

— Donald Trump , Politician

"It's an embarrassment to their families, to one another."

— Donald Trump , Politician

"Thank you to Kavanaugh, as well as Thomas and Alito, for their strength and wisdom and love of our country."

— Donald Trump , Politician

"The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to levy taxes and create trade policy."

— Matt Totsch , Executive

"We ended 2025 down about 10% in sales from 2024, due in large part to that uncertainty."

— Matt Totsch , Executive

"the decision doesn't fix things overnight, but it finally gives me the ability to plan a way out of survival mode."

— Sarah Wells , Executive

"we are happy that we can save our business tens of thousands of dollars."

— Kacie Wright , Executive

"a major victory for the constitutional separation of powers, for free trade, and for the millions of American consumers and businesses enduring the higher taxes and higher prices."

— Ilya Somin , Academic

"the Supreme Court stood up for the rule of law and Americans everywhere."

— Neal Katyal , Academic

"I could go back to probably longer-range planning because for a lot of this past year, it’s been kind of like, don’t even think more than a month or two ahead of time because who knows what’s going to be happening."

— Molly Moran , Executive

"This new ruling creates more uncertainty in the short term, but he’s hoping it leads to more clarity and checks and balances on tariff policy in the long term."

— Tom Florsheim , Executive

"Still, Rebout said he hopes it leads to some relief."

— Doug Rebout , Executive

"You’d like to be able to sell as much as you can to a customer, but you sure don’t want to have to ship a bunch of product over in containers, then have to pay to bring the product back because there’s a new tariff."

— Larry Krueger , Executive

"Swift refunds of the impermissible tariffs will be meaningful for the more than 200,000 small business importers in this country and will help support stronger economic growth this year."

— Neil Bradley , Executive

"It’s not discussed. We’ll end up being in court for the next five years."

— Donald Trump , Politician

"My sense is that could be dragged out over weeks, months, years."

— Scott Bessent , Executive

"Full, fast automatic refunds is really where our focus is going to be."

— Dan Anthony , Activist

"It's still, to me, a little bit of a wait and see. I wouldn't call it a victory yet."

— David Mooradian , Executive

"Most of them were negative. There really weren't a lot of positives from the tariffs."

— Patrick Bailey , Executive

"A tariff is nothing more than a tax."

— Patrick Bailey , Executive

"This year has been the most challenging year I’ve ever had. I’m going into my 14th year."

— Patrice Hull , Executive

"The hard thing is having to transfer those costs over to customers."

— Jennifer Barbosa , Executive

"disgrace to our nation"

— Donald Trump , Politician

"It was very directly a tax on U.S. consumers, and that’s why our cost of living was going up."

— Tucker Balch , Academic

"It's a sigh of relief, not only for myself but for the American consumer, for the American businesses."

— Mike Musheinesh , Executive

"Thank goodness somebody finally stood up against Trump."

— Don Ufford , Politician

"I don't have faith that it's really going to change much. Once a price spike has happened, it kind of sits there."

— Dawn Wagner , Executive