Tag: Tariffs

  • Tariff Bite

    Minneapolis Fed researchers say the long-delayed pass-through of tariffs to consumer prices “has arrived,” adding up to 0.4 points to core inflation as the FOMC prepares to meet MINNEAPOLIS, September 10, 2026 The tariff bill is finally landing on American receipts. After more than a year in which economists puzzled over why sweeping import duties…

  • Dividend Pitch

    Trump promises $5,000 “Trump Dividends” funded partly by tariff revenue if Republicans hold Congress, reviving a rebate idea that economists and some GOP senators have panned WASHINGTON, September 10, 2026 President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday night to send a $5,000 “dividend” to every American citizen after the midterm elections, funded in part by his administration’s…

  • Trade Ticks Up

    The WTO’s Goods Trade Barometer climbs to 102 as merchandise flows hold above trend, defying a record surge in tariffs, import bans, and subsidies worldwide GENEVA, September 10, 2026. Global goods trade is not just surviving the most turbulent trade policy environment in a generation. By the World Trade Organization’s own measure, it is quietly…

  • Truce Test

    A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff would push US duties on Chinese goods to the very ceiling of the trade truce, just as new export data shows Beijing’s shipping machine running hotter than ever ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Two weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome…

  • Copper Peaks

    Record prices, record Congolese imports and a looming customs deadline put US copper tariff policy at the center of global metals markets WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Copper has never been more expensive, and the reason has less to do with mines than with Washington. The benchmark three month copper contract on the London Metal Exchange…

  • Drug Duty Nears

    With the 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceuticals set to bite on September 29, importers race the clock while drugmakers weigh onshoring deals and pricing concessions WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. Three weeks from today, the United States will begin collecting a 100 percent tariff on imported patented pharmaceuticals and their active ingredients from most of…

  • Chip Tariff Row

    Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…

  • Drug Duty Cliff

    Three weeks before the September 29 deadline, 100 percent tariffs on patented drug imports loom for every company without an onshoring deal, and three of the industry’s biggest names are still exposed WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The pharmaceutical industry has entered the final three-week countdown to the broadest drug tariff in American history. On September…

  • India Deal Wait

    New Delhi says the trade agreement with Washington is negotiated and ready, but it will stay unsigned until the United States grants tariff terms better than India’s rivals receive NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The long-promised bilateral trade agreement between the United States and India has arrived at a peculiar standstill: the deal is done,…

  • Chip Levy Looms

    Commerce Secretary puts semiconductor tariff Phase Two on the record at the G20, and the exemption math threatens laptops, servers, consoles and the AI buildout itself WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The Trump administration’s long-signaled second wave of semiconductor tariffs moved from anonymous deliberation to on-record policy this week, after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on…