Federal Reserve President Jerome Powell said that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are bigger than expected, leading to the risk of further inflation.
A new report from federal Reserve The American business has shown that the increased costs due to tariffs are reported, which they expect to pass consumers on a large scale in the form of high prices.
The Federal Reserve released its latest version of The Beige Book on Wednesday, which summons economic conditions in each of the 12 regional districts of the Fed and is published eight times a year. Uncertainty on international trade policy is “broad” and is concerned about tariffs on imported goods, who is President Donald Trump The attempt to unbalance global trade has increased, the cost is increasing equally for firms and consumers.
The national summary of the Fed said, “Most districts said that the firms have expected an increase in increased production costs as a result of tariff. Many firms have already received notices from suppliers.” “The firms reported to shorten tariff surcharge or pricing horizon for uncertain trade policy.”
“Most businesses expect to undergo additional costs for consumers. However, there were reports about margin compression amidst the increase in cost, as demands in some areas were specifically for consumer-firing firms.”
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Tariffs are taxes on imported goods that are paid by importers that often pass high costs to consumers through high prices. (Through Sam Wolf / Bloomberg Getty Image / Getty Image)
In Boston district, Fed said that “retail and manufacturing contacts alike warn cost overruns The tariff is attached to, although still to be determined, their output may be significant passthrough for prices. ,
“The expected pastru rates were sufficient, with more than half of the manufacturers introduced a full pachatru, mostly without a lag. A manufacturer shortened the price of prices for 30 days in anticipation of the need to fast adjust the prices,” it continued.
Boston district also said that “Travel from Canada Especially rejected, and contacts feared that summer travel from Europe and China could also suffer due to negative reactions to American tariff policies. ,
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Auto dealers reported an increase in demand as the consumers wanted to shop before the tariffs were effective and increase the prices. (Frederick J. Brown / AFP Getty Image / Getty Image)
The auto industry has seen at least a short -term boost Tariff uncertaintyAccording to reports from several fed districts, consumers ran to buy a car ahead 25% on imported autos.
,Auto dealer After a slight increase in the previous period reported a strong growth in sales. Several contacts revealed that the sales record in March was high at high levels. However, all our auto industry contacts attributed this boost to carry forward the purchase of a vehicle to proceed with potential tariffs and did not expect to continue the strength in demand, “Philadelphia Fed wrote.
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Homebuilders increased the cost due to tariffs on construction materials. (Angus Mordant / Bloomberg Getty Image / Getty Image)
Homebuilders noted tariffs will increase in many fed districts Construction cost And due to uncertainty, demand causes recession in demand.
Tariff is also affected shipping industryRichmond Fed mentioned that one of the ports of its district recorded a “unexpected and disappointing” fall in the export shipment of month-by-month.
Trump administration plan to levy plans Port call fee on Chinese ships The cost was also noted as a source of cost pressure to support domestic ship construction.
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“Port contacts were particularly concerned about the proposed port call tax on Chinese ships, which could quite the cost of dealing with their estimates, cars. Some ports received a multimilian-dollar tariff bill on the Chinese crane, which were already ordered and nominated as tariffs and were now subject to tariffs,” Richmand Fed wrote.
