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RISKS AND CONTINGENCIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
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RISKS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 11: RISKS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

The Company operates in a challenging economic environment as the global economy continues to confront the impacts of recent executive orders by the U.S. federal administration regarding tariffs on imports from various countries including the European Union, Canada, Mexico, and China and the potential impact of actions taken by other countries in response to the announced tariffs, geopolitical conflicts and general inflationary pressures. The specific impacts on the Company have included:

 

  Tariffs may make the Company’s products less cost competitive and reduce gross margins. The impact on the Company’s business related to these or any other tariffs that may be imposed, is uncertain and depends on multiple factors, including the duration and expansion of current tariffs, future changes to tariff rates, scope or enforcement, retaliatory measures by impacted trade partners, and related inflationary effects. In addition, economic uncertainties may potentially affect our future order rate.
     
 

Significant geopolitical developments across Europe and Asia (including the war in Ukraine) have and may continue to restrict the Company’s ability to procure raw materials and components such as nickel and integrated circuits, as well as impacting the Company’s ability to sell its products into China, Russia and other Eastern European and Asian regions.

 

While management has initiated actions to mitigate the potential negative impacts to its revenue and profitability, the Company is unable to predict the impact that the above uncertainties may have on its future results of operations and cash flows.