tariffs

President Donald Trump
For The Conversation —  President Donald Trump’s economic agenda took a major hit when the Supreme Court struck down many of his most sweeping tariffs. While Trump has options to restore some of the tariffs, he’s losing his most powerful tool to impose them almost at will as a bargaining chip with...
FIJI FLAG
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —  Pacific Islands still face tariffs from the United States, but some rates are lower than originally announced in April. The White House announced last week that the "universal" tariff for goods coming into the US will remain at 10 percent the same level that was...
smartphone
WASHINGTON — The US government has granted tariff exclusions for smartphones, computers and other electronics imported largely from China, sparing them from President Donald Trump's steep 125 percent reciprocal duties. In a notice to shippers, the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB)...
Saimon Lomaloma and others with kava
Suva, FIJI — The 32 percent tariff that will be imposed by the United States on all Fiji imports will have negative impacts on American consumers and farmers, one of the country's biggest kava exporters stated on Friday. Wakanavu Kava director Saimon Lomaloma told RNZ Pacific that the tariffs...
President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Although New Zealand and Australia seem to have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's latest tariffs some Pacific Islands stand to be hit hard, including a few that aren't even countries. The US will impose a base tariff of 10 percent on all foreign imports, with rates...