This is what I have found.
Economic analyses and recent reports indicate that tariffs implemented in 2025 have indeed contributed to higher prices for consumers and businesses in the United States.
Here’s a summary of the key findings from various sources as of mid-June 2025:
- Overall Price Level Increase: The Budget Lab (TBL) at Yale estimates that the price level from all US tariffs implemented in 2025 through June 16 rises by 1.5% in the short-run. This is equivalent to an average per-household income loss of $2,000 in 2025 dollars. After consumption shifts, the post-substitution price increase settles at 1.3%, a $1,700 loss per household. Other earlier estimates from TBL and the Penn Wharton Budget Model showed similar or even higher short-run price increases.
- Highest Tariff Rate in Decades: Consumers are facing an overall average effective tariff rate of 15.8%, which is the highest since 1936.
- Disproportionate Impact on Certain Goods:
- Clothing and Textiles: Consumers are facing significant price increases, with 33% higher shoe prices and 28% higher apparel prices in the short-run. These prices are expected to remain elevated (18% and 15% higher, respectively) in the long run.
- Motor Vehicles: Prices for motor vehicles are projected to rise by 13.6% in the short-run and 11.9% in the long-run, equating to an additional $6,500 and $5,700, respectively, to the price of an average new car.
- Food: Food prices are estimated to rise by 2.2% in the short-run and remain at that level in the long-run. Fresh produce is initially 4.3% more expensive, stabilizing at 2.5% higher.
- Household Appliances: The expansion of 50% steel and aluminum tariffs to “steel derivatives” now includes many household appliances like refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers, which will likely lead to price increases in these categories.
- Consumer Technology: Earlier analysis indicated significant price increases for smartphones (31%), monitors (32%), laptops/tablets (34%), and video game consoles (69%) due to proposed tariffs.
- Business Response: Many stores and brands, including Walmart, Lululemon, and J.M. Smucker Co., have stated that they have raised or plan to raise prices in response to tariffs.
- Impact on Inflation: While some reports indicate that the broader inflation rate hasn’t yet shown a significant surge directly attributable to tariffs, economists anticipate larger month-on-month inflation spikes through the summer as companies exhaust inventory buffers and pass on higher costs. The Federal Reserve has also reportedly turned cautious in 2025, worried that Trump’s tariffs will rekindle inflationary pressures.
- Broader Economic Effects: Beyond direct price increases, the tariffs are also projected to reduce US real GDP growth, increase unemployment, and lead to lower household incomes overall.
In conclusion, the tariffs implemented in 2025 are clearly contributing to higher prices across a range of consumer goods, with a noticeable impact on household budgets.
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I see the word “projected” numerous times–inflation is too much $ chasing too few goods–rising prices (symptom of inflation// a fever the symptom of illness), like tariff costs means that folks will switch to other goods–a new car that is too expensive might lead to a different model or a used car.
If the Fed messes with the money supply (M-2) as they did in 2022 to fund the corpse’s reckless spending then you get inflation. Remember the checks sent to millions (not me)–where do you think that $ came from? the money fairy?
Tariffs, in my opinion, are a “no-no”–it increases costs and causes economic dislocation.
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Yes, you have the definition right. And, the observation of changing the market basket of goods is a good one.
However, one caution when looking at data, such as the CPI, that’s the market basket of goods as defined by the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is not your market basket, nor mine. So, the CPI is only the change in prices for a specific set of goods.
The inflation you and I suffer is a function of what we buy and how we change our own market basket of goods as prices change. Beef too much, buy chicken, or pork, or ham, or fish or go meatless. New car too expensive, get more miles out of your existing transportation, or ride the bus or train more often to work.
The elasticity of each good we would like to buy and whether there are adequate substitutions of equal value are determinative of the inflation each one us suffers, or don’t.
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