EarthQuaker Devices CEO says the brand has spent “more than $100k in tariffs since April 2025”
After NAMM President John Mlynczak this week said Donald Trump’s tariffs are “tilting the playing field against American manufacturers, American retailers, and the American children and families who depend on affordable instruments”, EarthQuaker Devices CEO Julie Robbins has announced she has joined a delegation of NAMM members to meet with congress to urge tariff relief on musical instruments.
In a press release shared with Guitar.com by EarthQuaker, it’s revealed that Julie Robbins joined the 20th NAMM Washington DC Advocacy Fly-In, representing the state of Ohio – where EarthQuaker is based – alongside 100 music business leaders and professionals representing all 50 states.
The delegation argued that tariff relief would benefit music retailers, manufacturers, educators and students across the US.
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“EarthQuaker Devices has spent more than $100,000 in tariffs since April 2025,” Robbins says. “That’s money that could have gone toward good jobs for Ohioans and provided our team with more resources to innovate.”
Julie Robbins has been a longtime advocate for tariff relief, and testified on Capitol Hill before the Senate Small Business committee in May 2025 about the harmful effects of tariffs on the musical instruments industry, specifically smaller, family-operated businesses.
“Today, I asked Ohio’s Congressional Representatives to stand up for their constituents,” she said. “And I will continue to advocate for relief as long as I have to in order to get them to join the fight in earnest.
In John Mlynczak’s latest statement on the devastating effects of Trump’s tariffs, he argued that they threaten the flow of new musicians into the industry, on which it so heavily depends.
“[These tariffs] will price beginners out of the market, which will hurt the American students, retailers, and manufacturers that depend on today’s students becoming tomorrow’s customers…” he said.
“The American professional instrument market is only as strong as the student market that feeds it.”
Learn more about the NAMM Advocacy D.C. Fly-In at NAMM.org.
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