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Plus: Big Tech is soft-launching data centers early and U.S. tariff pressure is prompting countries to tighten their forced-labor rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

This tariff is paid for by the American company that has imported the toys.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The cost of making the $30 toy, getting it to the US, and paying the import tariff, comes to $7.35.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Companies from Macy’s to Levi Strauss have said they will spend some of the multimillion-dollar tariff refunds they received on boosting marketing spending as the holiday shopping season approaches, the Journal’s Patrick Coffee writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“So six bolts of silk at twice the price, plus the tariff, but minus my bargain to you as a Zoroastrian would be one hundred forty-seven drachms.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

If the UK is outside the new rules, China could divert its excess car production to the UK, where, like Thailand, there are currently lower tariffs and even subsidies.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Carney’s solution, besides seeking a deal to reduce U.S. tariffs, is to unlock more of Canada’s resources and diversify the markets into which they are sold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Although up in 2026, manufacturing jobs have fallen by roughly 40,000 from a January 2025 peak before the first round of U.S. tariffs came into effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“By February 2026, tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to goods price inflation, and without them goods prices would have fallen slightly,” New York Fed researchers wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

According to data by Statistics Canada, the swing state of Ohio will be hardest hit, with C$3.2bn - or 12% - of its exports soon to be tariffed by Canada, followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Will retailers seek out customers who paid higher prices on products that were tariffed to hand them refunds?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

As American importers scrambled to switch suppliers last year, Asian producers such as Thailand and Vietnam benefitted at the expense of more highly tariffed China.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

It means a business will send goods somewhere without the knowledge of how those goods will be valued when it arrives at customs... you wouldn't know how your goods will be valued before you're tariffed.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

I presume if the siege lasts long enough, dogs, rats, and cats will be tariffed.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

This is why the surreal stories about the US tariffing rarely visited islands only inhabited by penguins matter.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025

“You can’t be tariffing people at the same exact time that you’re negotiating a detailed arrangement with them,” Mr. Ross said, while describing them as a cocked pistol.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

The exportation of the national specie was still forbidden, and more than once the State found itself obliged to return to the question of the tariffing of its coinage.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

He had something to do with the high cost of tariffing.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon