Posted on 11/14/2025 8:19:59 PM PST by lasereye
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing a range of food products, including coffee, bananas and beef, to escape his sweeping tariffs.
The move comes as his administration faces mounting pressure over rising prices. While Trump previously downplayed concerns about the cost of living, he has focused on the issue since his Republican Party's poor performance in last week's elections.
The dozens of products included on the White House's list of exemptions range from avocados and tomatoes to coconuts and mangoes.
These goods, the Trump administration said on Friday, cannot be produced in sufficient quantities domestically.
Trump has long said that his tariffs - currently a baseline 10% on imports from all countries, with additional levies on many trading partners - would not lead to increased prices for US consumers. He also said affordability was a "new word" and a "con job" by Democrats.
But the latest exemptions signal a reversal by the Trump administration, as the White House seeks to lower prices by walking back levies on some food staples.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump said the decision will affect products that are not produced in the US, "so there's no protection of our industries, or our food products".
Economists have warned that companies would pass the cost of tariffs onto their customers in the form of higher prices.
The White House released a list that includes more than 100 products no longer subject to the levies. Some of them include:
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Winter is coming. Most of these products aren’t produced here in the USA in winter.
Someone got the message! Polling looking bad..
Tariffs are taxes IMHO and Trump made us pay more to fill the treasury we are 38 trillion in the hole.
The 118 billion in tariff revenue the first nine months of this year equals 339 dollars 28 cents per person based on population figure of 347.8 million people.
Go away now troll. You are one very post with the same line “polling looked bad”
I frankly have given up any hope for the National Debt. The good faith of the US Taxpayer is all tapped out. The SCOTUS said as much that tariffs are taxes and if they yank that from Trump he is done.
A president’s approval rating very important and I don’t see a lot of good polls Rasmussen has it 54-44 negative regarding President Trump right now.
The biased ‘registered voters’ polls have it worse.
Ignore at your peril...
LOL Yes, of course, and then there is reality.
Trump has achieved many of the goals he intended from the tariffs. Other nations lowering their tariffs, huge trade deals all over the world and a load of money in U.S. coffers.
LOL BBC LOL
But it is definitely not because tariffs raise prices
/s
To thank anything else is downright stupid. Tariffs are a tax and someone will pay it, usually the consumer.
Silly wabbits.
Play stupid games....
Waiting on all the trillions in promised investment to come through.
He has achieved some things with tariffs but the American Consumer is paying the expensive price...Even the SCOTUS said that...
SCOTUS is now an economic bureau? LOLOL
You’re such a clown. Go back to the kiddie table and eat your mac and cheese and Jello.
No worries, when the SCOTUS overturns or narrow casts all these tariffs I will remind you and watch you cry.
Quote: “ Ignore at your peril...”
You hate Trump, we get it. His polls, we get it.
He’s still President.
You get it?
We are never going back to the Bush wing again?
Get that, or do you need a poll?
Although I think it’s a good idea not to tariff fundamental items we would have trouble producing in the US, I still don’t get this “rising prices” narrative. Where I am in FL, my grocery bills have been (somewhat) cheaper for a few months now, and gas is quite a bit lower than a year ago. And the official stats show the consumer price index and inflation doing well compared to the Biden years.
Is all this complaining really just about blaming Trump for what Biden did and Trump has improved but just not drastically, or is something else going on that I’m missing?
That is simply not how tariffs work. We have already seen that the vast majority of the tariff costs were split between the American businesses selling the item and the foreign producers. Very little of it was passed on to the consumer, which was also proven in Trump’s first term when hardly any of the costs of his big China tariffs actually effected the consumers.
American consumers paid a very small fraction of the tariffs, and what very little they did was off-set by the lowered gas and transport costs, which is why the economic markers in this regard look better than under Biden even with very high tariffs. And of course all the big trade deals that Trump made because of the tariffs haven’t even kicked in yet, stimulating the economy and creating more jobs and higher wages, which naturally will allow people to afford to buy more.
A drop in the bucket.
He got some significant commitments to build new factories here. He didn’t need all those tariffs to do that. Particularly on food. I don’t think there should have been tariffs even on food that we produce here. Were all our farms disappearing? He’s rolling back tariffs on tomatoes.
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