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‘Scary times’: New York shopkeepers plan ‘astronomical’ price hikes under Trump tariffs 4 avril 2025 à 16:12

‘Scary times’: New York shopkeepers plan ‘astronomical’ price hikes under Trump tariffs

4 avril 2025 à 16:12

Small businesses that import goods brace for steep price increases that they have to pass on to their customers

People in the US: how have your shopping habits changed due to Trump’s tariffs?

It’s just two days since Donald Trump launched his extraordinary tariff assault on the world in a bid to rebuild the US economy and roll back an era of globalization. But already shopkeepers are bracing for recession, and their customers spending less, as they prepare to increase prices.

“We’re going to have to put our prices up and people aren’t going to like it,” said Ian Anderson, store manager at Tea and Sympathy, a UK grocery store, restaurant and fish-and-chip shop stalwart in Manhattan’s West Village.

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Trump’s tariffs plan gets mixed reaction in New York: ‘I believe we were lied to’ 2 avril 2025 à 16:00

Trump’s tariffs plan gets mixed reaction in New York: ‘I believe we were lied to’

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Par :Edward Helmore in New York

2 avril 2025 à 16:00

Some seemed nonplussed and said it would make no difference, while others expressed support for Trump’s plan

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Donald Trump’s “liberation day” – his plan to overturn decades of US free trade policy – was getting a mixed reaction in New York on Tuesday.

With Trump planning to unleash tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, many said the price rises economists are predicting would make no difference because they were already out of reach of pinched pocketbooks. Others said they would accept short-term price hikes for longer-term US economic well-being.

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Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship, says director of reopening Frick Collection 30 mars 2025 à 12:00

Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship, says director of reopening Frick Collection

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Par :Edward Helmore in New York

30 mars 2025 à 12:00

After a $220m five-year renovation, the New York museum is set to showcase a trove of European masterpieces

Can masterpieces of European art help smooth over the fissures between the old world and the new? It’s a hope, say officials at the Frick Collection in New York, which reopens next month after a five-year, $220m (£170m) renovation.

Axel Rüger, the director of the museum, which began with a trove of European masterpieces including Rembrandt and Vermeer, hopes that its art could be a reminder of US-European ties in these turbulent political times.

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