{"id":387437,"date":"2025-11-18T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387437\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:32:21","slug":"trump-rolls-back-tariffs-on-200-foods-shoppers-businesses-see-little-immediate-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387437\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rolls back tariffs on 200+ foods; shoppers, businesses see little immediate relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food retailers say months of higher-cost inventory will likely delay any impact on consumer prices.<\/p>\n

PORTLAND, Oregon \u2014 President Donald Trump rolled back tariffs\u00a0<\/a>on more than 200 imported food items Friday in an effort to reduce grocery prices. The list includes coffee, cocoa, bananas, beef, avocados and tea.<\/p>\n

The administration said the executive order does not signal a retreat from using tariffs as \u201ceconomic drivers.\u201d Still, small business owners and shoppers say they do not expect immediate relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll believe it when we see it!\u201d said Ali Shaw, co-owner of Bold Coffee and Books in Southwest Portland.<\/p>\n

Shaw said wholesale coffee costs for her first-year business have risen nearly 9% since January. Prices for milk and other staples have jumped another 5% since August.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor these prices to be going up and down, it\u2019s been a real challenge to find where our foothold is,\u201d Shaw said. She added that raising prices was a last resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cGut punch! You don\u2019t want to have to do that, you don\u2019t want to pinch your community when you\u2019re also feeling pinched, so we put it off as long as we possibly could,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Shoppers say they are feeling the strain as well. Christina Barron of Portland said even small outings with her children have become expensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, at least $20 every time,\u201d Barron said. \u201cWe actually went out to breakfast the other day and paid nearly $200 for my husband and I and four kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Portland business owners reveal how tariffs have hiked store prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Economists say rising grocery bills reflect real increases in food costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to the store the other day, and I can\u2019t believe how expensive beef is,\u201d said economic consultant Eric Fruits. \u201cWe are now a beef-free house for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fruits said that even with the tariff rollbacks taking effect, consumers are still feeling the impact of earlier rounds that pushed prices higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a while for those to kick in, and it takes a while for people to register those price increases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At Providore Fine Foods in Northeast Portland, co-owner Kaie Wellman said she does not expect any immediate price changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if it rolls back, I don\u2019t know whether our distributors will be able to roll it back,\u201d Wellman said. She explained that invoices for fruit, meat, tea and other imported items shift constantly \u2014 and many products were purchased months ago at higher tariff levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many of these things have been bought months in advance, so they\u2019re not going to change the prices of what they sold us months and months ago,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Economists say consumers should brace for a shorter holiday shopping season and elevated prices through the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in this very strange time for our economy, and I think a lot of it has to do with the uncertainty for what the future holds,\u201d Fruits said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food retailers say months of higher-cost inventory will likely delay any impact on consumer prices. PORTLAND, Oregon \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-387437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115570484464361656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}