How a small US business navigated Trump’s tariffs

Financial Times Financial Times · 12min

Foreign central banks have slashed their holdings of Treasuries at the New York Federal Reserve to the lowest level since 2012, and a preliminary estimate showed that Eurozone inflation jumped to 2.5 per cent in March.

Plus, we hear from two small US business owners about how they have navigated a year of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. 


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https://www.ft.com/content/2c473393-35fb-479d-8bba-236a1a98087c?accessToken=zwAAAZ3fgza7kc8sRzOTNftHndOLuiNqGpgIfAE.MEUCIHxo-GX9snz4cueu5fyVOJIXVrQJz9CjiTwlXNHaHHyYAiEAjJgnHQlajLZdQMtiGgEi9Bq2paAe7U2VSjDweDfeVsM&segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump tariff tracker: US trade, markets and the economy

https://www.ft.com/content/a2127804-bd1d-47d2-9e5b-8d31a907c8ca?edit=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the FT News Briefing’s tariffs series here

https://www.ft.com/chris-giles-on-central-banks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chris Giles on Central Banks


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Today’s FT News Briefing was hosted and edited by https://www.ft.com/marc-filippino" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Filippino, and produced by Fiona Symon, Victoria Craig, Saffeya Ahmed, and Sonja Hutson.

Our show was mixed by Kent Militzer.

Additional help from Gavin Kallmann and David da Silva.

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