COURTS Optical customers should not expect a significant increase in prices despite the imposition of tariffs by the US government.

Regional director of Optical at Unicomer group John Roberts told media the brand will remain mostly unaffected as they source their glasses frames from Italy and go through suppliers directly from China.

“What we’ve seen is some increases in transportation costs…but we have plenty of inventory right now. I live in the US and every day it’s tariffs, tariffs, tariffs but I think things will level itself out…but right now we’re watching it carefully,” he said at the opening ceremony of the brand’s newest location within Kappa Drugs, Glencoe on April 23.