America is starting to eat Trump’s tariff TACO salad, UBS says

“Film lovers will know this feeling of tension when the hero takes to a new assumed area only to find anything there.” He writes that Taku traders are waiting for the next shoe, definitions at their highest levels since the 1930s, and the independence of the Federal Reserve is threatened, as he writes. However, global shares are at the highest standard levels, price shrinks, and tightening credit differences.

Haefle looked under the main inflation cover for reading “basic goods” in June, on the pretext that this is where the effect of customs tariffs is detected, as an increase in June showed the highest level of two years. Many of the last acceleration reflects the high prices in the most exposed goods to new tariffs – concerned furnishings, devices, electronics, clothes and games. There is also a delay between when the customs tariff is announced, and when the importers store the goods, when the stores finally transfer these costs to shoppers, which means that this must increase in the coming months.

Everything is delayed

UBS global wealth management notes that data in the coming weeks and months will be a key to determining whether basic commodities are really rising, which reflects the effect of definitions. In fact, the industries that rely heavily on imports feel a pinch first. Retail sales decreased in categories such as electronics and household furnishings by 2 % and 1.1 %, respectively, once inflation is modified, as families begin to reduce spending in response to high prices. On the contrary, total retail sales volumes are still 0.4 % over the month, and consumer spending is still relatively flexible.

Who carries the burden?

The central question remains on the customs tariff: Who pays for them – the elderly, importers or consumers? Haefee warns that it is not clear how exporters, importers or consumers will divide economic costs. The division is likely to vary according to the industry, products and the situation in the market.

Some companies, such as General Motors, have already reported direct success: the profits of the second quarter of General Motors lasted a loss of $ 1.1 billion as a result of tariffs, which led to a 32 % decrease in the basic profit. The auto industry company responds to a mix of prices, cost reduction, and supply chain modifications, but it warns that the ongoing tariff environment can increase margins or force high prices on buyers in the end. Through the broader business community, the company’s executive officials address the customs tariff for profit calls.

Hevly said that UBS will closely see retail sales, inflation and consumer spending, while listening to the comments in the continuous second -quarter profit season about who will really be “eating definitions”, to reformulate President Donald Trump.

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Some financial displacement may be on the way. A “beautiful, beautiful draft law”, which contains extended and new tax cuts – can help with the financing of customs tariff revenues – stimulate the economy. But the amount of these revenues is not clear.

The risks of tendency in both directions. If the customs tariff nourishes the larger inflation mutation, it may slow down, and the federal reserve can be forced into a difficult political angle, and a balance between the stability of prices against economic growth. Instead, if companies absorb the costs of more costs to keep their share in the market, profits may increase, which increases the effect on investment and employment markets.

Currently, the nature of the late definitions means that its full effect has only started to appear under the surface of the address of the title. Economists and policymakers will closely monitor basic inflation, retail sales and corporate hikes in the coming months. The only certainty, apparently, is that the customs tariff is no longer a discussion of the abstract policy: they started reaching the home – one price at a time.

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