A small business owner just broke new ground. Tariffs are threatening to drag her brand.

The buzz of excited voices grew louder as entrepreneur Rahama Wright stood at the center of a bright room with a rose-colored ceiling. She wore a white lab coat adorned with “Yeleen Beauty” in periwinkle blue. The words “Make Good, Look Good” hung on a wall inside the new manufacturing space along Benning Road east of the Anacostia river.