As a massive new tariff chokes US demand for Chinese imports, local retailers who sell Chinese-made goods are preparing for hard times.

Amid steep levies, shipments from China to the U.S. plunged in April, with Chinese exports rerouted to other countries.

China’s exports to the US fell sharply in April after Donald Trump’s triple-digit tariffs took effect, in another sign of the damage the US president’s trade war is causing the world’s two largest economies as they prepare for de-escalation talks.