In the news.
Modern Commerce founder Sarah Wells has been a leading national voice on small business, trade, and commerce policy, with 100+ interviews in the last year across national broadcast, print, and digital outlets.
Selected coverage.
A curated selection of recent national, broadcast, and policy coverage spanning the federal tariff debate, the Supreme Court ruling on IEEPA tariffs, and the small business voice in trade policy.
- Apr 27, 2026 National Press Foundation Entrepreneurs Discuss Layoffs, Significant Financial Losses and An Inability to Plan for the Future →
- Apr 23, 2026 NPR How to get your tariff cash back →
- Apr 23, 2026 Marketplace Businesses have started applying to get their share of $166 billion in tariff refunds →
- Apr 20, 2026 Time Trump Administration Begins Refunding Tariffs. What You Need to Know →
- Apr 14, 2026 Connected Commerce Council AI Empowers Us to Compete on a Level Playing Field With Much Bigger Companies →
- Mar 26, 2026 New Democrat Coalition New Dems Hear from Small Businesses on the Harmful Impacts of Tariffs →
- Mar 16, 2026 Virginia Mercury Virginia entrepreneurs on Trump's dodgy tariffs: 'It disrupts your business' →
- Mar 5, 2026 NPR U.S. businesses that paid emergency tariffs are now trying to recover their funds →
- Feb 24, 2026 CNN CNN News Central: Sarah Wells on small business tariff impact →
- Feb 24, 2026 NPR These small business owners are owed tariff refunds. Will they ever get them? →
- Feb 20, 2026 NBC News 'The damage cannot be refunded': Small businesses weigh Supreme Court's tariff ruling →
- Feb 20, 2026 CNN CNN News Central: Sarah Wells on SCOTUS tariff ruling →
- Feb 20, 2026 American Enterprise Institute Trade policy uncertainty: Insights from a roundtable →
- Feb 9, 2026 NPR NPR: Sarah Wells on tariff-driven small business financing pressures
- Dec 3, 2025 The New York Times Ahead of Tariff Ruling, Businesses Race to Secure Refunds →
- Nov 7, 2025 Marketplace Small business owners are feeling the pressure of tariffs and a crowded labor market →
- Nov 5, 2025 CNN: The Lead with Jake Tapper The Lead with Jake Tapper: Sarah Wells on U.S. tariff policy impacts →
- Nov 5, 2025 BBC Conservative justices sharply question Trump tariffs in high-stakes hearing →
- Jul 29, 2025 CNN How are businesses preparing for the August 1 tariff deadline? They can't →
- Jun 17, 2025 Marketplace Tariffs hit strollers, car seats and other baby gear →
- May 31, 2025 NPR Businesses and trading partners are in limbo after a pair of federal court rulings →
- May 30, 2025 NPR NPR: Sarah Wells on small business reactions to tariff court rulings
- May 11, 2025 The Wall Street Journal How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: 'Nobody in Power Seems to Care' →
- May 9, 2025 CNN Trump's trade war is about to change the way you shop →
- May 8, 2025 NBC Washington Virginia business owner tells why tariffs may tank her company serving moms →
- Apr 13, 2025 Fox Business Stocks wrap one of the most volatile weeks on record, China retaliates →
- Apr 12, 2025 BBC Six things to know as the tariff trade war deepens →
- Apr 11, 2025 Fox Business Small business owners speak out about effects of Trump tariffs: 'Unsustainable' →
- Apr 10, 2025 CBS News Businesses await tariff refunds as IEEPA legal questions persist →
- Apr 9, 2025 BBC Trump says he is open to talks after hiking China tariffs →
- Apr 7, 2025 NPR Between tariffs and survival, American business owners are doing alarming math →
- Apr 4, 2025 NPR Businesses and markets left reeling after Trump expands trade war with new tariffs →
Coverage prior to the founding of Modern Commerce was conducted under Sarah Wells's role as founder of Sarah Wells Bags, where she emerged as a leading voice for small business in the federal tariff and trade policy debate.
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