Under the shelling of Trump's tariffs, ammunition makers in a Balkans -Valley Hunker Down

The ammunition manufacturers of Gorazde in the east of the Bosnia survived the Balkan Wars in the early nineties through mountains and dense forests and pumped balls and mussels that helped their new country to ward off the attack from Serbia.

Three decades later, they are faced with a new threat: the scattered tariffs announced by President Trump in early April.

The appetite of the United States on Guns has long granted a steady market for the main industry in Gorazde – the weapon factories in which Bosnia was part of Yugoslavia, a multi -ethnic communist state that imploded in 1991.

Now, from Mr. Trump for almost all trading partners of the United States – including Tiny Bosnia – duties have to sustainably sail near Gorazde.

Ginex, a local company that produces ignition devices in ammunition, known as primer, has designed expansion plans to find out what the tariff on the exports to the USA will be. Will it be 35 percent, as Mr. Trump originally announced on April 2? A temporary revised rate of 10 percent was announced a week later? Or something else?

“It would stop all of our exports,” said Demir Imamovic, Ginex Marketing Manager, and referred to the initial tariff hike. Even the revised rate of 10 percent – more than twice the previous rate – risk the risk of screaming American customers, he said.