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April 2, 2025

US businesses look for ways to offset tariffs

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
AP Retail Writer

NEW YORK — Gadgets sold without batteries. Toys sold in slimmed-down boxes or no packaging at all. More household goods that shoppers need to assemble themselves.

These are some of the ways consumer product companies are retooling their wares to reduce costs and avoid raising prices as President Donald Trump levies new import taxes on key trading partners as well as some materials used by American manufacturers.


 
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