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March 7, 2025

Trump's trade policies are baffling businesses

  • The on-again, off-again tariff war with America's biggest trading partners is causing businesses to delay or cancel investments.
    • By PAUL WISEMAN, ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MAE ANDERSON
    AP Business Writers

    WASHINGTON — Marc Rosenberg, founder and CEO of The Edge Desk in Deerfield, Illinois, is getting ready to introduce a fancy ergonomic chair designed to reduce customers' back pain and boost their productivity. He figures the most expensive one will sell for more than $1,000. But he can't settle on a price, and he is reluctantly reducing the shipment he's bringing to the United States from China.

    There's a reason for his caution: President Donald Trump's ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America's three biggest trading partners — Mexico, Canada and China.


     
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