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By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to exempt electronic devices — like smartphones, iPhones and laptops — from tariffs was only a temporary reprieve but those products will face separate levies, adding more confusion to an already chaotic rollout of tariffs on Chinese goods.

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — It’s April 15 — otherwise known as “Tax Day” in the United States. While the IRS has already received a majority of the 2024 federal income tax returns typically filed by Tax Day — 101.422 million as of April 4, to be precise — US tax filers are expected

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday. Smartphones, computer monitors and various electronic parts are among the exempted products. The exemption applies to products entering the United States or

By Leigh Waldman and Joel Williams, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 30 years, Kevin Keyes and his brother-in-law Bob Chambers have run Dry Brook Sugar House in Salem, New York. Dry Brook Sugar House is nestled amid maple forests on the border of New York and Vermont. During this year’s maple season, which can run

CNN By David Goldman and John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and his advisers said this was the plan all along: Scare the bejesus out of the world by announcing astronomically high tariffs, get countries to come to the negotiating table, and — with the exception of China — back away from the

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans are rarely this pessimistic about the economy. Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US wholesale prices fell last month, new data showed Friday, an indication that inflationary pressures weren’t necessarily building before they reach the consumer. The better-than-expected Producer Price Index reading — which showed that the prices paid to producers fell 0.4% in March from the month before and slowed sharply

By David Goldman and John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and his advisers said this was the plan all along: Scare the bejesus out of the world by announcing astronomically high tariffs, get countries to come to the negotiating table, and — with the exception of China — back away from the most

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s deportation push is spooking Latino customers and hurting beer sales, according to Modelo and Corona owner Constellation Brands. Since taking office, Trump and his team have enacted aggressive measures to crack down on immigration, including invoking a rarely used wartime authority. The Trump administration

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Retailers are freaking out over tariffs. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, if enacted after the 90-day suspension, will impact some of the biggest textiles exporters, including Bangladesh, Vietnam and Pakistan. The United States Fashion Industry Association — a trade organization representing the interests of importers, wholesalers and major

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — While the White House wages a trade war on behalf of US manufacturing, the largest and most important part of the American economy — one that has a trade surplus, not a gap — is under threat. The US trade gap, caused by American consumers and businesses importing more

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon shoppers can likely expect some prices to rise due to the ongoing global trade war, the company’s CEO admitted. The online retailer’s network of third-party sellers “will pass that cost on,” Andy Jassy said Thursday on CNBC, in response to the impact of tariffs affecting product

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Inflation slowed sharply in March, new data showed Thursday, underscoring the continued strength and resilience of the economy ahead of President Trump’s aggressive trade moves. In any other timeline, such news would stoke optimism that Americans’ cost of living is no longer surging. Instead, Thursday’s Consumer Price Index report

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — In 1970, more than a quarter of American workers held jobs in the manufacturing sector. Today, it’s only about 8%. The Trump administration says sweeping tariffs will reverse this decades-long decline. But a vision of reinvigorated factory towns and assembly lines that defined America 50 years ago may be