IDG Connect

2 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe |IDG Connect

It’s been a big week for tariff news. Starting last Wednesday, the Trump administration levvied a huge number of the tax hikes, in ranges starting from a baseline 10% for all countries to the eye-watering, just-announced 125% tariff on Chinese imports. Some of the tariffs have just been paused for a 90-day period of trade talks, but there’s no indication that any of them are actually going away soon, and many of them could easily increase in response to other countries’ retaliatory tariffs.

2 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe |IDG Connect

President Trump has just backed down (somewhat) from his market-shattering new tariffs: He has just issued a 90-day pause on most of them. Major economic rival China is not among the nations getting a stay of judgement, however, and Trump has just revealed the highest tax hike yet on Chinese imports. It now stands at a troubling 125%. The news could be taken as an indication that Trump will respond to pushback against his widely disliked tariffs. However, the pause will only last 90 days.

3 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe |IDG Connect

Across 2018 and 2019, the first Trump administration’s tariffs impacted around $380 billion worth of products. The second time around, however, the administration has already levvied duties against products worth north of $1.4 trillion as of this April… just months into a second term.

3 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe |IDG Connect

It’s been a long road: After a decade of pushing it off, the federal government will be enforcing a regulation that requires truckers to submit their medical certification electronically, and not on paper. The FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) first issued a shift towards a fully electronic Medical Examiner’s Certification back in 2015, but enforcement was pushed back several times due to IT concerns.

3 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe |IDG Connect

Foreign-imported cars and light-duty trucks may soon start increasing their US price tags by over $7,000. Why? The Trump administration’s new 25% tariff on all automobile imports. It comes right on the heels of a 20% steel and aluminum tariff, as well as a China-focused tariff, and it will be followed in early May with another tariff aimed at auto parts. To learn about how these taxes will affect you, we checked in across a wide range of impacted industries and countries.