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President Trump on Wednesday said he would be sending letters to over 150 countries as he plans a barrage of duties to take effect Aug. 1, including levies on pharmaceutical imports and semiconductors.
There is no single way to predict how businesses will price items weeks or months into the future as, in addition to tariffs, they are influenced by things like consumer demand, sales strategies, and supply chains.
I'm David Westin, and this week our special contributor, Larry Summers of Harvard, goes over the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and we take a look inside what President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs could mean for the US wine industry.
For months, owners of indie nail polish brands have been struggling to navigate a new period of uncertainty amid a stop-and-go trade war.
A lot could happen on the trade front in the next few weeks, from pressuring Russia on Ukraine to arguing the legality of the administration’s tariff policy. Here are a few developments to watch.
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The ongoing tariff negotiations have created a potentially more uncertain environment for electronics and other supply chains than the pandemic.
Concerns around tariffs and conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have taken a backseat to more fundamental factors affecting these markets.
President Trump said he plans to write to many nations setting a blanket unilateral tariff rate, which he said could be 10% or 15%. "We’ll have well over 150 countries that we’re just going to send a notice of payment out" detailing tariffs,
President Trump’s plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on Russian goods could raise the cost of urea, a key fertilizer in corn and other row crops.
The latest report on US inflation was the clearest sign yet that tariffs are starting to boost costs of commonly imported consumer goods, while a decline in car prices kept overall inflation in check.