How Tariffs are Shaping the Holiday Shopping Season

Monday, July 21, 2025

Months of confusion over which foreign countries' products may become more expensive to import has left a question mark over the holiday shopping season.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 01:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Not holiday shopping, but...

I wanted to buy a two pairs of jeans to replace some that have seen better days.

So, I went to the usual online stores to buy them. None of the stores had my size in stock.

Eventually I went to the manufacturer's website to buy them there.

They had my size in stock, but only one pair.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-20 12:34 PM | Reply

Billionaires needed tax cuts and Trump needed to hurt America.

Tell you brat kids to deal with it.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-20 12:43 PM | Reply

And no eggs in that nog...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-21 01:50 PM | Reply

Fwiw I've noticed a 50% increase in food prices over the past 6 months or so

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-07-21 02:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Orange juice prices could rise by 20% to 25%, according to Johanna Foods, a small U.S. business suing the White House over tariffs threatened against Brazil.
President Donald Trump said in a July 9 letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he would apply a 50% tariff to all imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1.

www.nbcnews.com

Another MAGA win.

~ ---------- ~

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-21 04:17 PM | Reply

LMAO Christmas is 6 months out and you clowns are already bitching. We lived through 9.2% inflation with your last choice in presidents, I think we'll be ok.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-21 04:31 PM | Reply

lol ... luvsorangeturds child-raping idol is doing a great jobs of bringing down beef prices.

www.newsweek.com

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-21 04:35 PM | Reply

LOL You're to ignorant to see exactly why that happened. Your pants$chtter-in-chief fumbled the ball and now you need someone else to blame.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-21 04:39 PM | Reply

Luvsorangeturds cheers as the daughter-boning------------ declares war on Christmas.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-21 04:43 PM | Reply

"LMAO Christmas is 6 months out and you clowns are already bitching."

You, uh, don't understand how Christmas works.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-21 06:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#6 ... Christmas is 6 months out ...

Yup.

Back when I worked retail, we started to receive Christmas toys mid-August.

And retailers have usually placed their Christmas orders a couple three months ago, and are now awaiting delivery of the goods.

Were those orders placed?

Are the goods in transit across the Pacific?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-21 06:04 PM | Reply

Republicans think Christmas toys come on a sleigh pulled by reindeer.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-21 06:10 PM | Reply

@#12 ... Republicans think Christmas toys come on a sleigh ...

If that sleigh is a container ship making the month-long trip across the Pacific, they are right.

One thing that I heard, but have not been able to verify ...

If a container ship leaves China on, say, Monday and Pres Trump imposes a tariff increase on, say, Wednesday, then the contents of that ship are not subject to that tariff increase because it had already left it's port before the tariff increase took effect.

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-21 06:22 PM | Reply