Trump tariffs

Importers are finding lots of ways to deal with the uncertainty caused by the president’s import taxes.

Tariffs, a new tax-and-spend bill, conflicts in the Middle East … It’s all just a lot.

China’s e-commerce sellers are just trying to hang on.

Warehousers are reluctant to build new capacity because nobody really knows what’s likely to happen going forward.

Everyone from manufacturers to retailers are scrambling to take advantage of this trade war truce, but some businesses are still putting future plans on hold

Canada and the Northwest U.S. act as one to support the blueberry business, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But tariffs could disturb that relationship.

The trade deficit grew as imports increased by $16 billion in March, the Census Bureau reported.

“As materials’ cost balloon the way they have these past couple of weeks … I can’t continue to sell them at the prices that I was before,” said Isabel Dennis at KIMA Jewelry.

Uncertainty is turning the things we usually buy for fun and comfort into panic purchases for some consumers. 

On the surface, the numbers look contradictory, but the reasons they behaved as they did can tell us something about the tariff-era economy.