tariffs
Jeren Calinisan and Dominique Nguyen are worried about the price of one of their favorite indulgences: boba tea, a popular Taiwanese sweet beverage, chock-full of chewy tapioca balls.”$8 already is the most I’ve ever paid for a boba drink,” Nguyen said as she sipped her champion milk tea with jasmine…
Rachel Reichenbach is stressed out about tariffs.The artist and content creator sells frog pins, plush toys, and other amphibian-themed items to fans.Her plushies are made in China, which means they could soon become much more expensive to sell in the US due to recent tariffs and rule changes instituted by…
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that business leaders who oppose his reciprocal tariffs do not appreciate what he is doing for them.”THE BUSINESSMEN WHO CRITICIZE TARIFFS ARE BAD AT BUSINESS, BUT REALLY BAD AT POLITICS,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Easter Sunday.”THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND OR REALIZE…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steven Borrelli, founder of Cuts Clothing, in Culver City, California. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been a consistent supporter of Donald Trump.I supported him in 2016, 2020, and 2024 because I believed he was someone who was pro-business, pro-family…
Some Canadian retailers aren’t playing nice about US imports anymore. They’ve escalated from simply labeling products made in Canada to singling out American-made products with a warning label “T” for “tariffs.”Loblaw Companies Ltd., which operates about 2,400 stores across Canada, announced on March 10 that it planned to roll out…
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is escalating his war against President Donald Trump’s tariffs.On Wednesday, the governor said his state would sue to immediately block the tariffs, with the high-profile Democrat describing the levies as “unlawful and unprecedented.”The legal action is a dramatic escalation in the relationship between the two…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Beth Pratt, a 29-year-old baker and small-business owner from Denver. It has been edited for length and clarity.I am a classically trained pastry chef, and I previously worked for a restaurant group. But at some point in the last five years,…
As if planning a wedding wasn’t already stressful enough, President Donald Trump’s trade war could make it even pricier to say “I do.”The Trump administration has issued a combined 145% tariff on many imports from China, where the vast majority of wedding dresses are produced.That means the average wedding dress…
The past few days with tariffs have been an emotional roller coaster. Not because I checked my 401(k), but because I placed an order from Temu last week — and its fate seems to be hanging in the balance.In anticipation of “Liberation Day,” when tariffs would go into effect, I…
Good morning. In a scorching new court filing, lawyers for Sam Altman laid out his version of events that led to his breakup with OpenAI cofounder Elon Musk. It’s the most detailed account yet of Altman’s side of what went down.In today’s big story, President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on…
