Do not expect prices to increase immediately. Many companies are preparing at prices by regularly increasing prices in recent months and have existing actions to sell.
But experts say that many companies will almost certainly have to increase prices, even if their products are not produced abroad.
Due to global supply models, almost all products will use parts or materials from one of the countries subjected to high prices, even if the product is made elsewhere. Almost everything you buy is likely to be affected by prices in one way or another.
About a third of consumer electronics are made in China. And almost 75% of American clothing imports come from Asia. More than half of all imports of American furniture come from China and Vietnam.
Apple always manufactures most of its iPhones in China, which is now a 104%price. Analysts said that if Apple had to transmit prices to its customers, the iPhone 16 could go from $ 800 to more than $ 1,100 (and the estimate was when the rate rate was 54%, not 104%).
But it is unlikely that buyers support the full weight of this higher tax. Apple would have sought to move an iPhone production in India to soften the impact of prices while he is looking for an exemption from the Trump administration (as he did during Trump’s first mandate).
However, uncertainty has prompted anxious buyers to panic purchasing iPhones in the days preceding the day when the prices have entered into force.
For the record: we do not recommend any purchase of panic.
Regarding clothing and shoes, a large part of which is imported from Southeast Asia, you can expect to see higher prices on newly launched seasonal clothes rather than spectacular increases in current items.
Buyers are also likely to see the cost of bases such as underwear and t-shirts increase, because the demand for these items is consistent, said Sheng Lu, professor of studies on clothing at the University of Delaware. And shoes prices will probably increase because most shoe factories are located in countries that have been affected by the highest rates, such as China and Vietnam.
Even companies that manufacture their products in the United States will be affected by prices. The furniture company based in the United States, Sabai, a manufacturer of one of the best choices of Wirecutt sofas, said in an email to customers on April 6 that, although the company “has the chance to be somewhat isolated from the impact of prices, the least compared to most furniture companies”, it still expects its costs to increase buyers by 5%.
“It is essentially impossible to stock up on all the documents necessary to create our products at the national level, while being able to offer them to anywhere near the price we are currently making,” said Sabai in his email. “American manufacturing industry does not have the capacity and infrastructure to manufacture some of our components, which forces us to get abroad. For the context, some of these components cost between 3 and 5 times more to produce in the United States, if they are available at all. ”
Meanwhile, some companies may stop selling specific products in the United States. The framework of the manufacturer of laptops said earlier this week that it would arouse American sales from certain laptop 13 configurations, our choice of repairable Windows laptop, due to the 10% reference rate which entered into force on April 5. The executive said that the increase in the Taiwan import rate meant that the company would lose money on sales of its basic laptop.
And although Nintendo has not increased the price by $ 450 of its announced switch 2, which will be sold on June 5, the pre -orders of the long -awaited game console were delayed due to the price uncertainty. Pre -orders initially had to start on April 9, but Nintendo said that it would update the calendar “on a later date” to “assess the potential impact of changes and market conditions”.
