{"id":310376,"date":"2025-08-01T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:33:15","slug":"american-businesses-are-running-out-of-ways-to-avoid-tariff-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310376\/","title":{"rendered":"American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">CoRPORATE America\u2019s profit engine has been remarkably robust over the past few years, even amid stubborn inflation and elevated interest rates. Faced with Donald Trump\u2019s assault on global trade, however, it is starting to sputter.  Companies from General Motors, a carmaker, to Nike, a sportswear brand, have seen their profits plummet owing to Mr Trump\u2019s levies on imports. Goldman Sachs, a bank, reckons that American businesses are absorbing around three-fifths of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2025\/07\/27\/whos-feeling-the-pain-of-trumps-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost of the duties<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CoRPORATE America\u2019s profit engine has been remarkably robust over the past few years, even amid stubborn inflation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[51,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-310376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955891803282691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}