Melkon Khosrovian recalls waiting for a shipment of bottles that were due to arrive amid the mad rush that marked the days before President Donald Trump's tariffs took effect.

He remembers doing the math, too.

"We don't have any control over when they clear [customs], and our taxes would have been $10,000 more," if the container holding his bottles didn't make it before the deadline, explains Khosrovian, who co-owns the Greenbar Distillery in Los Angeles. "In the meantime, we're sitting here chewing our fingernails and wondering what's going on."

What a difference a day makes.

Khosrovian, an Armenian immigrant, founded the distillery with his wife more than two decades ago. Theirs may not be the sort of business typically regarded as blue-collar work, but Greenbar is essentially the sa

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