President Donald Trump sues a group of board game companies, as he said his tariffs reduce their profits to the real value of monopoly money.
Stonemaier Games, which makes the popular board games “Wingspani”, “Rolling Realms” and “Varttage”, said this week's case. According to the company, the case would be “disputed by Trump's uncontrolled power” and its tariffs.
“We do not stand for power as our livelihoods – and in the US – the means of living and contractors of thousands of small businesses, with customers whose lucky search we need to be expensive – treated like pawns in a political game,” the company said.
St. The lawyers of Stonemar in Louis said in a legal complaint that the company estimates that he pays “millions of tariffs” because he produces all his games at the Chinese factory Panda Game Manufacturing, located in Canada. Stononar has been printing his games in China for more than 13 years, the case says.
At least nine other companies joined Stononer in a lawsuit, saying that Trump's tariffs cause significant damage to their business. Xyz Game Labs, Rookie Mage, Spielcraft and Tinkerhouse Games are all board game companies that join the lawsuit.
In April, the independent board game manufacturer spielcraft paid $ 4,335 tariffs in April, the case said.
Other small businesses also joined. Princes Awesome, a clothing company that makes an inclusive clothing for children and adults, paid $ 1,041 for dresses imported from China in March.
“Princess Awesome has also ordered additional products from Bangladesh and India, which they assume that they will reach the United States in the coming weeks and continue to submit new import orders,” the complaint says.
Trump and Scott Bessent, secretary of his treasury, have said that tariffs are part of a strategy aimed at increasing manufacturing jobs in the United States. But it can take some time. In the meantime, tariffs can increase prices and reduce the purchasing power of the dollar, leaving consumers less money to spend.
Experts told Business Insider that tariff supply chain disorders could cause prices and goods to be reduced for a few weeks.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, which represents companies in the case, said in a statement that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional and that only Congress should have the right to establish tariffs.
“The Constitution gives Congress – not the President – to establish tariffs, because politics affecting the entire nation should come to the most representative of the entire representative of the entire nation,” the statement states. “And Congress cannot delegate the President's basic legislative power.”
