Australian businesses manufacturing in China caught by steepest US tariffs

Beatrice Toh was only just recently celebrating her business’s launch in the United States. The Melbourne-based entrepreneur started her children’s company as a young mum, when she dreamed up a reusable alternative to throwaway colouring books. The expansion of HeyDoodle to the US has been almost a year in the works, and cost time and money to configure the toy range for the American market. Beatrice Toh celebrating her business’s expansion into the US at a toy fair in New York in 2025. (Supplied) Now, celebration has turned to stress and “delirium”, as Ms Toh and her small staff navigate…