Mark Latino described how Lee Display, a U.S. maker founded in 1902, is producing about 10,000 artificial trees a year while import taxes and tariff volatility push prices up and shrink margins for small manufacturers and retailers.Retailers from the Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo to JaZams toy stores in Princeton and Lahaska and chains such as Best Buy and National Tree Co. are responding to wholesale increases of five percent to twenty percent on imported toys and roughly ten percent to fifteen percent increases on artificial trees by cutting orders, raising prices or emphasizing higher-margin products.Surveys and a national consumer poll show roughly forty-one percent of Americans plan to spend less for the holidays and many shoppers are switching to discount stores, secondhand markets and domestically produced gifts to avoid tariff-driven price increases.