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One Importer's Attempt to Make Board Games in America Reveals the Real Cost of Reshoring

After tariffs on imported board games raised his costs, Jonathan Silva investigated whether U.S. manufacturing was a viable alternative. What he found illuminates the structural gap between policy intention and industrial reality.

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This story earns its place by restoring context, grounding an abstract policy debate in one person's concrete experience and naming what reshoring actually requires, so readers can think rather than
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