{"id":40075,"date":"2025-11-14T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40075\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:47:07","slug":"donald-trump-drops-tariffs-on-range-of-food-imports-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40075\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump drops tariffs on range of food imports \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits. It’s part of a response to pressure from consumers who complain prices are too high.<\/p>\n

The move comes after voters in off-year elections<\/a> earlier this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Trump slapped tariffs on most countries in April. He and his administration<\/a> have been long insisted that tariffs don\u2019t increase consumer prices, despite economic evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Record-high beef prices have been a particular concern, and Trump has said he intended to take action to try to lower them. Trump\u2019s tariffs on Brazil, a major beef exporter, have been a factor.<\/p>\n

The executive order also removes tariffs on tea, fruit juice, cocoa, spices, bananas, oranges, tomatoes and certain fertilizers. Some of the products covered aren\u2019t produced in the United States.<\/p>\n

The president signed the executive order after announcing that the U.S. had reached framework agreements with Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina designed to ease import levies on agricultural products produced in those countries. Trump suggested earlier this week that he\u2019d be lowering tariffs on coffee to help increase its importation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTariffs or customs duties are a tax on products purchased from abroad, and they are used by practically all countries\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-40075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}