(28 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Youngstown, Ohio – 25 June 2025
1. Various of Phantom Fireworks employees stocking shelves at one of the company’s retail stores
2. A worker does inventory near a sign featuring the Phantom Fireworks logo that reads (English) “Lighting Up Backyards of America from Coast to Coast”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“Phantom is the top retail seller of fireworks in the United States. We have the largest chain of brick-and-mortar stores of any company in the country.”
4. Various of the worker doing inventory of fireworks on the shelves
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“The biggest firework holiday in the country is the Fourth of July. That's where we do 90 percent of our business.”
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6. Fireworks explode in the sky
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7. Fireworks in the sky
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Youngstown, Ohio – 25 June 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“I don't think there's an American alive who can think of the Fourth of July without thinking about fireworks.”
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Warren, Ohio – 25 June 2025
9. Various of stacks of boxes filled with fireworks at a Phantom Fireworks warehouse that read (English) “Made In China”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Youngstown, Ohio – 25 June 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“We get 99% of our fireworks from China. Our competitors do the same.”
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Warren, Ohio – 25 June 2025
11. Various of activity at the warehouse
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Youngstown, Ohio – 25 June 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“Phantom has been very gently impacted by the current wave of tariffs that have been instituted. We had probably 70, 75 percent of our products already in the United States when those tariffs were imposed. So, we have maybe 30 percent that are coming in since then. We've already paid some tariffs. So, on about 30 percent of our products, there's going to be some effect in the price. We're not going to pass all of it on to the consumers.”
13. Various of the exterior of the retail location
14. Various of customer Peggy Senich checking out
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Senich, fireworks shopper:
“It's the same. I thought it was going to be a little bit higher because of all the tariffs, but it's really just the same.”
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Warren, Ohio – 25 June 2025
16. A forklift driver transports a pallet of fireworks boxes into a storage bay
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Youngstown, Ohio – 25 June 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“And our only salvation, honestly, is an exemption. If the prices go up, the prices go up for everyone.”
18. A sign at the store informs shoppers of a sale
19. An employee bags up some of Senich’s items
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Weimer, Phantom Fireworks:
“We're going to skate this year. In 2025, the consumers wil... [truncated]
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