Like countless other companies in the manufacturing powerhouse of Zhejiang province, its products are geared largely towards export -- a sector freshly menaced by Donald Trump’s roiling of the global economy and increasingly brutal China tariffs.
“At the beginning, there was some pessimism in the industry,“ Jessica Guo, the factory head, told AFP.
The Chinese government is in fighting mode too, on Friday increasing its own retaliatory duties to 125 percent.
The effects are already being seen on Guo’s unseasonal winter wonderland of a factory floor.
Other local Christmas tree makers have also been hit, she said, but not as badly as in southern Guangdong province, where some factories’ production can be completely taken up by one large US client.
“Really, over the past few years... we have hardly come across any American customers,“ she said as she strode past walls of stacked boxes stamped with addresses in Guatemala and Chile.
‘Wait and see’
Recently she too has had suspensions or cancellations, citing the tariffs.
Behind her on a display shelf, a bobbing Trump statue stood alongside a “Dancing Queen” Elizabeth II and a jiggling “Surfer Dude”.
In the meantime, work continues.
Cassie showed AFP boxes full of Trump figurines bound for Europe, one hand pointing, the other with fingers crossed behind his back.
‘Steady attitude’
A warren of tens of thousands of stalls sells millions of items, from a panoply of electronics to body glitter, toy guns and astroturf.
“If the trade war escalates... We should look at it with a steady attitude,“ veteran trader Wang Xuxue told AFP at her booth decked out with capybara plushies and Barbie purses.
Nearby, a costume shop had arranged a display of silicon masks -- a wall of popular villains that included Freddy Kruger, Pennywise the Clown, various werewolves and demons -- and Donald Trump.
“(We) are more hardworking, more thrifty... We’re not afraid of him fighting a price war -- we’re all very confident.”
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