PITTSBURGH — New tariffs on Canada and Mexico are set to take effect overnight.
President Donald Trump says the tariffs will take effect at 12:01 Tuesday morning.
Consumers we talked to on Monday were uneasy about what comes after the tariffs are imposed.
Ronnald Randall of Verona said he’s stocked up on supplies.
“I get everything that I can in order to stock up for what’s coming because it’s going to be crazy,” he said.
Shoppers like Randall say they’re not sure what will happen after President Trump implements the 25% tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico, with 10% for Canadian energy.
“It seems to be a negotiating or a way to get other countries to do something, but they sort of have left the consumer out of the equation,” said Elaine Luther, a professor of business management at Point Park University.
Luther says it’s likely the consumer who will bear the brunt of the tariffs. On Monday, President Trump said there was “no room left” to avoid the tariffs.
“It’s a mixed message and a mixed strategy, and often even the best plans have unintended consequences, and I think that [in] the short term that the consumer will be the one that’s bearing those unintended consequences,” Luther said.
Those consequences are still evolving, but experts predict the agriculture and automotive industries will take a heavy hit, with costs expected to climb.
“I think it will be pretty quickly with some of the things, and then I think that if they do decide to retaliate the things we send out,” Luther said.
Trump said reciprocal tariffs would take effect on April 2 on countries that impose duties on U.S. products.
Luther says one thing you can do is to subscribe to Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA’s, which help local farmers.
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