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Lydia Clarke navigates co-owning two California cheese shops and a bar amid tariffs and a decline in business in downtown Los Angeles.

Toy prices went up 2% in May, and some smaller stores are struggling to survive.

What do flat-rate tariffs across so many countries accomplish? Is it about trade imbalances, reshoring manufacturing, revenue, or something else?

The Trump administration’s tariffs roughly break down into one of two categories. What do each of them mean for the global economy?

They can create perverse incentives that end up boosting foreign manufacturing.

Recent data from the Labor Department has shown that the price of foreign exports to the U.S. — before tariffs — has held steady over the last few months. That means U.S. importers are absorbing most of the tariff burden.

Rachel Rozner, owner of Elden Street Tea Shop, recently purchased a wholesale tea company to attempt to avoid tariffs and charges from middlemen.

As business interest in FTZs grows amid the ongoing tariff uncertainty, local economies stand to benefit.

The pandemic slowed down business. Now with tariffs, Kathryn Lundeen, owner of Lundeen’s Gifts in Culver City, California, feels even more uncertain about the future of her business.

A Pennsylvania pointe shoe company lost everything in a warehouse fire. U.S. trade policy is making starting over even harder.