Dear Distributor and Agent Partners, The U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Trade representative (USTR) have implemented additional tariff increases on many goods including

The United Sates government announced intent to delay implementation of the 25% tariff effective March 1, 2019 on Chinese-manufactured components and finished goods. In response,

Therefore, we will not be proceeding with our announced January increase at this time. All other previously announced and implemented increases are in full effect

As we noted in previous two price increase letters, we will need to raise prices further to cover the costs associated with the January 1st

In August and September, we announced price increases due to inflationary cost increases, raw material cost increases and the impact of component and finished goods