The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

Six months into Donald Trump’s unprecedented gambit to impose sizable tariffs on imports, U.S. consumers are already shouldering as much as 55% of their costs, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.

And with new tariffs likely on the way, the cost burden could rise even higher, they said.

The findings, released Sunday, suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election. While inflation rates have come down from the post-Covid peak, they have remained stuck above levels economists consider healthy, causing consumers and businesses alike to continue to report feeling burdened by price increases.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    1061·
    1 day ago

    Who else would be bearing the costs? The government is profiting from them, foreign companies and individuals aren’t affected beyond a drop in purchasing power, and companies are just going to pass the costs on to the consumer.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      3·
      16 hours ago

      foreign companies and individuals aren’t affected beyond a drop in purchasing power

      Actually they are affected. Either their profit margins drop, or they drop trade with the USA completely.

      But any of this still affects American consumers.

      I have no doubt that Goldman Sachs have their numbers right, but not the implications and knock-on effects etc.

      • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Their percent margin might drop, but there is no way they just eat say a 100 dollar extra tariff charge. They would charge 100 dollars more on the item(s). They make the same profit, consumer pays more. The only time this isn’t true, is if the consumer will not or cannot pay the extra 100 dollars for the product and the sale is lost. In such a case they may try to pay part of the tariff and not raise their costs to account for margin.

        In practice I think many companies will actually charge more than the tariff to maintain percent margin.

        So definitely affects US consumers and companies, but may not affect foreign companies really at all.