Some New York City stores urge customers to make their purchases quickly before President Trump's new prices – and nerve shoppers toured the showrooms throughout the city to kidnap electronics, devices and even cars while prices are held.
“Frankly, we urged the company to inform customers that it is better to buy before the tariff begins by 10 %,” said Xavier Poindexter, 27, a sales colleague at an electron and Son Electronics and devices store.
“I heard a lot about this issue from customers,” he added. “Our customers are concerned about the high prices of products and companies that sell products that benefit from the situation and increase prices further.”
The first round of newly announced definitions-which is 10 % on all imports in the United States-enters into force on Saturday.
The mutual tariffs have become heavier – including electronics powers such as Japan and China, which will face a 24 % and 34 % tariff – as of April 9.
Some store managers and sales representatives say they have not received any directives about raising prices so far, while others were directed not to comment on the topic – but many customers are not waiting to find out what might happen.
“I bought Subaru up and paid $ 50,247, and told them that if they could not get it before the tariffs, he forgot it, the deal was parked,” said MJ, 74, from Brooklyn who decided to trade in her old cars once Trump's plans started.
After announcing the full range of the president's tariff on Wednesday, MJ decided that the time may have come to replace all the aging devices in her home as well, so she went to PC Richards & Son on Thursday to set prices.
She said: “I am worried because I live in a house of the age of all devices about 10 years, and this is the time that it continues at the present time. The reformer said that I do not want to buy spare parts for all these old devices after the definitions occurred, so I am their prices now.”
At the Apple store in Soho, many customers have run to quickly upgrade their iPhone devices and capture the products they had appointed in the event of high prices within a week.
“[We planned to buy] A 40 -year -old mother, Jackie Carter, said, she stopped her 12 -year -old son next week to buy a pair of headphones.
“I think it is terrible, and it is inhuman,” she said, and it comes to the Greater Trump's Great Grand Gathering to enhance America's economic position.
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Another customer who came to a new iPhone before the tariffs was also disgusted.
The man said: “If you simply ask me about my opinion about it, this is a very bad idea.” “It breaks all alliances and promises, and all the work that our government and our civil service are preparing, including many of my friends, since 1945.”
President Trump has developed customs duties as a measure to stimulate local manufacturing and return money into American pockets – describing the move “The Declaration of Economic Independence.”
He said during his announcement on Wednesday: “The factories will return to our country – and you see that this is already happening. We will form our local industrial base. We will open foreign markets and destroy foreign trade barriers.”
But not everyone is very optimistic – as some analysts expect the Americans to cost up to 3800 dollars a year.
In Big Apple, business owners and workers are afraid.
“Low business has decreased very much,” said Abdel Qader, treasurer at New York gifts and luggage at Times Square.
“Many products come from Bangladesh and now 37 percent of the tax. The Mexican product. In another week, the entire market explodes. When they raise the price, we raise the price as well, how do we pay the rent?
However, some shoppers support this step.
MJ said: “It lines the deal to make it fair for us and get the companies that make things here.” “I'm ready to go to everything we should go to return to the country that we had when I was a child. I really think it's on the right track.”
