US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases

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1. I bought a lovely cotton dress from Etsy last September for my birthday.

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It took a couple of weeks for the dress to arrive from India, and it was wonderful. I had received a gift card from Etsy for my birthday, so I decided to order 4 of the same type of dresses, (loose caftans you could use as cover ups or robes.) There was a great sale on the 4 dresses, about $60.00 for all 4! To my horror and shock, I found that because of the tariffs it would cost me over a hundred dollars more for shipping! Needless to say, I didn't buy the dresses. By the way, I only paid $8 to ship the first dress, (about $25.00 total for the dress and shipping,) and the reason it was $100 for shipping about 2 weeks later is because the shipping couldn't be combined--AND you had to pay the tariffs per dress. Who can afford that? Affordability in this administration? I think NOT!