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We internally manage our investment portfolios considering investment opportunities and risks, tax consequences, and overall financing strategies.
−Removed: Our investment
−Removed: portfolio includes equity securities and U.S.
−Removed: treasury securities with a total fair value of approximately $15.7 million at December 31, 2024.
−Removed: These securities are subject to interest rate risk and, based on our investment portfolio at December 31, 2024, a 100 basis point increase in interest rates would result in a decrease in the fair value of the portfolio of approximately $314,000.
+Added: Our investment portfolio includes equity securities and U.S.
+Added: treasury securities with a total fair value of approximately $15.9 million at March 31, 2025.
+Added: These securities are subject to interest rate risk and, based on our investment portfolio at March 31, 2025, a 100 basis point increase in interest rates would result in a decrease in the fair value of the portfolio of approximately $318,000.
While an increase in interest rates may reduce the fair value of the investment portfolio, we will not realize the losses in the Consolidated Statements of Income unless the individual fixed-income securities are sold prior to recovery or the loss is determined to be other-than-temporary.
−Removed: Currency Exchange Risk
+Added: Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
We conduct business with non-U.S.
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dollar to the RD$ would result in an annual increase or decrease in income from operations of approximately $832,000.
+Added: Tariff and Inflation Risks
+Added: Inflation generally affects us by increasing our cost of transportation, labor and manufacturing costs.
+Added: In recent years, we have seen fluctuating transportation costs caused by global supply chain disruptions or geopolitical instability and general inflation effects, which may cause pressure on our costs and margins.
+Added: More specifically, we source a large amount of our raw materials from international countries, which exposes us to international supply chain inflation, particularly ocean freight, and to changes in the strength of the U.S.
+Added: General inflationary pressures continue to increase the other elements of our cost of goods and operating expenses.
+Added: During the first quarter of 2025, various tariffs were announced on imports into the U.S.
+Added: On April 2, 2025, the U.S.
+Added: announced a new universal baseline tariff of 10%, plus significant additional country-specific tariffs for select trading partners, on all U.S.
+Added: The reciprocal country-specific tariffs were subsequently paused for 90 days on most countries.
+Added: The imposition of the baseline 10% tariff will increase the cost of our products and could impact product margins .
+Added: The uncertainty of future tariffs could also cause disturbances in ocean shipping capacity that could affect our ability to secure ocean freight containers for our products, and create inflationary effects on our costs, in addition to the direct impact of tariffs.
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