high price of gas, groceries and other goods<\/a> was the single most important factor in their vote. Another 43% of Trump voters said it was an important factor, even if it was not the most important consideration.<\/p>\nSome consumers say they are willing to pay more for U.S. goods.<\/p>\n
Alisha Sholtis, 38, a nurse-turned-social media influencer, used to shop heavily on China-founded fast-fashion e-commerce site Temu, scooping up polyester tops and dresses for $5 to $25 and grabbing cheap electronics and toys. Products from Temu will now face huge new tariffs.<\/p>\n
Yet Sholtis, who lives in Davison, Michigan, said she got tired of the clothes that fell apart after one washing and the toys that broke easily. She now shops elsewhere.<\/p>\n
She applauds Trump\u2019s goal of bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. because she feels the move will lead to better quality. And she said she wouldn\u2019t mind paying higher prices as a result.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would buy less of more higher quality things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kevin Hassett, Trump\u2019s top economic adviser, acknowledged Sunday that \u201cthere might be some increase in prices\u201d from the president\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n
But he noted that there have been trade-offs from globalization: \u201cWe got the cheap goods at the grocery store, but then we had fewer jobs,\u201d he said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet many industries will find it hard to shift much production back to the U.S. in the face of the tariffs, particularly since the scope of the duties has been changing frequently. With duties on Chinese goods so much higher than in the rest of the world, many Chinese products will likely be routed through other countries, such as Vietnam, and pay a lower duty, economists say.<\/p>\n
Shannon Williams, CEO of the Home Furnishings Association, a furniture trade group, said it can take years to set up a factory in the U.S. It\u2019s not clear if there would be enough workers either, given the low U.S. unemployment rate of 4.2%.<\/p>\n
And the most innovative furniture makers in the U.S. are using technology to reduce their labor needs. \u201cThey\u2019re going through it and completely automating their assembly line,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
China is the United States\u2019 third-largest trading partner, and the U.S. imported more than $60 billion worth of iPhones and other mobile phones from China last year.<\/p>\n
China also exported 1.2 billion pairs of shoes to the United States, according to the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America. About 26% of U.S. clothes were imported from China in 2023, one study found<\/a>, and about 80% of U.S. toys.<\/p>\nWilliams said furniture prices likely won\u2019t rise much anytime soon because most companies now import from other Asian nations, such as Vietnam or Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Yet \u201cglobalization has definitely helped bring costs down,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason you could buy a $699 sofa in 1985 and buy a $699 sofa today.\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u2019Innocenzio reported from New York. Associated Press Writer Linley Sanders also contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D\u2019INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s new tariffs threaten to push up prices on clothes, mobile phones, furniture and many other products in the coming months, possibly ending the era of cheap goods that Americans enjoyed for about a quarter-century before the pandemic. Related Articles Denver…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soapandseife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}