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U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Wednesday that India will pay a tariff of 25% beginning…
Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy And Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the European Union should agree to open its markets for U.S. exports to convince President Donald Trump to…
When the Trump administration announced a new 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes, Florida-based growers celebrated the win. They’d pushed for years to end a trade agreement that they said failed to keep Mexican imports from flooding the market. But greenhouse growers, importers and industry groups in Arizona and Texas are blasting the Commerce Department’s withdrawal from the agreement, warning…
Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy And Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that Aug. 1 is the deadline for countries to begin paying tariffs to the United States, but said that…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding a minimum of 15%-20% tariffs on imports from the European Union,…
Consumer prices rose in June as President Donald Trump’s tariffs began to slowly work their way through the U.S. economy. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services costs, increased 0.3% on the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The numbers were right…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 27, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that tariffs announced back in April will take…
The White House will likely ask more countries to drop their digital services taxes as part of ongoing trade talks, a senior Trump administration official said Monday after Canada rescinded its DST over the weekend. “My expectation is that the digital services taxes around the world will be taken off, and that that will be…
Jordyn Holman, a New York Times business reporter, is planning a wedding. To find out how tariffs are affecting the bridal industry, she visited three different dress shops selling gowns from around the world. Source link
Homes under construction at the Toll Brothers Preserve at Folsom Ranch community in Folsom, California, US, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. T Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Higher mortgage rates and uncertainty in the broader economy continue to weigh on consumers — and consequently on the nation’s homebuilders. Builder sentiment in June dropped 2…