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tariffs

Fireworks will light up this Fourth of July. Next year could be different if tariff talks fizzle

The Associated Press

July 1, 2025

Fireworks are as American as apple pie. But nearly all of those aerial shells, paper rockets and sparkly fountains are imported from China.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: 4th of July, fireworks, tariffs

Americans are shaky on Trump’s tariffs, deportations without hearings, Vanderbilt poll finds

Marianna Bacallao

June 18, 2025

No Kings Nashville immigrants

More Americans worry about how deportations are being carried out than they worry about their current finances, according to a Vanderbilt poll released Wednesday.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Donald Trump, economy, Immigration, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, MAGA, Politics, republicans, tariffs, tnleg, tnpol, Vanderbilt Poll, Vanderbilt University

An unwanted double: US sales fall for American whiskeys as threats of a trade war heat up

Bruce Schreiner, AP

February 12, 2025

Talk of tariffs cast a shadow over the Distilled Spirits Council’s report on 2024 U.S. spirits sales. The report, released Tuesday, showed a drop in domestic sales for the American whiskey category, which includes bourbon, rye whiskey and Tennessee whiskey.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: alcohol, Associated Press, tariffs, whiskey

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