Gabe Hagen, co-founder and CEO of Brick Road Coffee and a participant in Small Businesses Against Tariffs, was featured in AZ Family speaking out against the tariff regime:
Gabe Hagen, owner of Brick Road Coffee in Mesa, said he is “cautiously excited” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unconstitutional.
Hagen said the tariffs, which went into effect last year without Congressional approval, dwindled his inventory and drove up prices.
“We budgeted around $6,000 per pallet. That first pallet was over $10,000,” Hagen said.
Hagen said small business owners have been watching the case closely.
“Small businesses have been kinda holding on for dear life to get some sort of relief and now it’s at least a little bit validating to know that what we had been saying all along is what the Supreme Court ruled,” Hagen said.
Hagen was in Washington, D.C. when oral arguments were heard in November alongside Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who filed the lawsuit with other Democratic attorneys general across the country.
“The court has spoken clearly, President Trump’s tariffs were illegal,” said Mayes. “What Donald Trump tried to do with these emergency tariffs was an absolute affront to the Constitution.”