Rising costs put business owners on edgeOver eight months into the second Trump administration, local business owners say they are feeling the effects of the president’s tariff policy. Trump announced Friday new tariffs on imported drugs, furniture and trucks will go into effect Oct. 1. Katie Murray, who has owned Astoria’s Purple Cow Toys shop for over 30 years, says the tariffs have forced her to raise prices. In August, the Trump administration ended a duty exemption on imported parcels valued at less than $800. “People won’t buy that.”Matthews said most of the stock currently in her store was ordered before the tariffs.