As a US-based business, we try to produce or source as many of our products as possible from other US-based companies.

In the case of CHALLENGE COINS, this is impossible. EPA regulations prohibit the production methods used to "multi-plate" metal. This means you can have only one metal type on a coin, which doesn't facilitate the silver and gold commonly used on the USCG coin backs. More significantly, the introduction of these regulations literally drove the US coin producers overseas. Our production team is located in China (the company that we originally sourced through was, and still is, in Ohio). Because the regulations forced them to move their production overseas, they (and we, and you) are now subject to (at time of writing) 170% tariffs on challenge coins.

In the case of PATCHES, this is challenging. Many US-based patch manufacturers have been driven out of business by competition from overseas producers, so our "home-based" options are extremely limited. While the companies we use to produce our patches are American-owned, their production facilities are, you guessed it, overseas, with most in Asia.

Until the daily fluxation of tariff levels stops, we are unable to offer estimates on pricing for these products that are valid for more than an hour at a time, and that's an untenable situation for the USCG SK system.

Call or e-mail us for more information and for the latest updates on our efforts to come to a workable solution to this problem.