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Trump’s Tariffs Are a Kick in the Can

The president’s game of red light, green light with tariffs creates uncertainty for U.S. can-making businesses and will result in higher prices for canned food and drinks...

Maryland-based tin can manufacturing company to raise prices amid steel and aluminum tariffs

It's going to be absorbed by the consumer, not by the countries shipping in or the government here in America...

Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs: What items could soon cost you more

Trade protectionist measures “have serious impacts for the U.S. economy and domestic food security” by putting too much pressure on U.S. manufacturers, thus leaving the door open for cheaper international manufacturers to provide products for the U.S...

Protect tinplate steel from tariffs

The tinplate tariff, while well-intentioned, combined with industry’s move away from tinplate, is hurting American farmers and manufacturers, raising grocery bills, and helping our adversaries exploit a gap we created...

Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly

The 2018 tariffs crushed makers of tinplate steel, a thin plate of steel coated with tin that is commonly used for canned food. The industry mothballed nine production lines, “contrary to the intent” of the duties. Only three lines now remain...

US Business Leaders React To Trump's New Steel And Aluminum Tariffs

Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum “will increase prices for canned foods and beverages. Consumers will feel the inflationary impact of these tariffs at the grocery store”...

President Trump's Tariffs Put America First — Now Let's Fine-Tune Them

President Trump should exempt tinplate steel from Section 232 tariffs. Tinplate isn’t a national security product and keeping it under tariff protection only serves the interests of foreign competitors...

Trump’s Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Go Into Effect , Inciting Global Retaliation

The tariffs are expected to raise costs for American businesses that use foreign metals, including manufacturers of cars, canned food and drinks, solar panels and other products...

As Food Producers Struggle, The Burden Of Tariffs Is Vivified

The U.S. steel industry would be competed out of existence to the detriment of our national security...

Trump Hits Foreign Steel and Aluminum With Tariffs, Restarting an Old Fight

Industries that use metals to make other products said overly broad protections would hurt them...

Trump says no exemptions with metal tariffs to start in March

The tariffs will raise the cost of bringing the metals into the US, sparking concern among businesses in the US that rely on the imports...

What Trump's proposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum would mean for the U.S.

Tariffs could give a helping hand to domestic steel and aluminum producers, but also raise prices for US businesses and consumers...

Food Buyers Have Paid For the Tariffs On Steel

Domestic food can makers are now facing critical obstacles because the tariffs greatly increased the price of goods needed for production and reduced the availability of a key input in a food can called tinplate steel...

Three American goods that could rise in price due to metal tariffs

The expanded tariff measures announced by President Donald Trump, expected to go into effect next month, will mean many US businesses wanting to bring the metals into the country will have to pay more...

Without an exemption for tinplate, tariffs will harm America’s food security

Speaking on behalf of the US canmaking industry, Robert Budway, president of the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), has called for immediate action to protect a critical sector...

Packaging execs share how tariffs could hurt or boost business

Potential tariffs could roil supply chains for packaging materials and customers’ goods at a time when packaging manufacturers said customer inventories had largely been stabilizing after a period of widespread destocking...

How Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit you at the grocery store

From soft drinks and beer to aerosols and shelf-stable soups, many everyday grocery items sold in steel and aluminum cans could be in store for a price hike...

Threat of Trump’s tariffs force food and beverage giants to prepare

A study released earlier this month by Numerator found nearly two-thirds of consumers are worried about tariffs raising the price of everyday goods, especially in essential categories such as groceries...

From soup cans to airplanes, steel and aluminum are a fundamental part of American life

The Consumer Brands Association, which represents packaged food makers, said it’s urging the Trump administration to exempt aluminum and steel products that aren’t available in adequate quantities in the U.S. Otherwise, consumers will likely see higher grocery prices...