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Trump’s tariffs one year on: How Americans are paying the price

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 695 words · By Hanna Duggal
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What to know about Trump’s tariffs one year on: How Americans are paying the price

Trump’s tariffs one year on: How Americans are paying the price US households paid $1,000 more for the same goods over the past year, with lower-income families hit the hardest.

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What happened

Trump’s tariffs one year on: How Americans are paying the price US households paid $1,000 more for the same goods over the past year, with lower-income families hit the hardest.

Why it matters

One year ago today, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington, US President Donald Trump announced a new 10 percent global tariff as part of a sweeping executive order he dubbed “Liberation Day”.

Common ground

The immediate fallout from his announcement was severe, with the stock market suffering its worst drop since the pandemic.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “According to the Tax Foundation, US households paid $1,000 more in 2025 for the same goods they were already buying.”
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Claim 2: “Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, the government may be required to refund as much as $175bn to the businesses that paid them, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.”
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Claim 3: “According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the US collected more than $287.1bn in customs duties in 2025 and $64.4bn so far in 2026.”
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Claim 4: “Between their implementation and the Supreme Court ruling, the average effective US tariff rate rose from 2.6 percent to more than 13 percent according to economists at the New York Federal Reserve.”
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Claim 5: “This puts the effective tariff rate at its highest level since World War II, surpassing any trade barriers seen in the last 80 years.”
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Claim 6: “In November, the Trump administration signed an executive order exempting more than 237 categories of food imports from its tariff regime. Coffee, beef and oranges were among those removed from the list.”
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Claim 7: “On February 20, the Supreme Court ruled that most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, noting that the president does not have the authority to impose broad, open-ended tariffs by claiming a national emergency.”
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Wikipedia sources discuss unrelated Supreme Court cases (immunity claims) and do not mention tariff authority rulings.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the President of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal ju…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), is a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), an economic s…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court determined that presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presum…
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Claim 8: “With Trump’s IEEPA tariffs being replaced by a flat 10 percent tariff, the Tax Foundation projects that the average cost to US households will fall to about $600.”
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Claim 9: “One year ago today, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington, US President Donald Trump announced a new 10 percent global tariff as part of a sweeping executive order he dubbed 'Liberation Day'.”
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Wikipedia sources only mention Trump's age and presidency, with no reference to 'Liberation Day' tariffs or Rose Garden announcements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At 79 years old, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, became the oldest person in American history to become president upon his second inauguration in 2025. In July 2024, fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Trump family is a prominent wealthy American family. The most well-known member is Donald Trump, the 45th and current 47th president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present), which makes the…
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Claim 10: “Surveys conducted by the New York Fed found that roughly half of the businesses subject to tariffs raised their prices in response, passing the cost directly to the people buying their goods with higher prices at checkout.”
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Claim 11: “The immediate fallout from his announcement was severe, with the stock market suffering its worst drop since the pandemic.”
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No evidence found in any sources to support or refute the stock market drop claim.
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Claim 12: “Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that nearly 90 percent of the economic burden from tariffs has fallen on US businesses and consumers, with foreign exporters only absorbing a small percentage of the cost.”
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Claim 13: “US households paid $1,000 more for the same goods over the past year, with lower-income families hit the hardest.”
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All Wikipedia sources are unrelated to the claim about household costs or tariffs. No independent sources corroborate the $1,000 price increase claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital dist…
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