Report: U.S. Companies Increasingly Passing Tariff Costs on to Consumers

One year after the Trump Administration’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements, a KPMG survey found that U.S. businesses report margins eroding and operational costs rising, while passing on a higher share of the tariff costs to customers. Of the respondents, 34 percent are passing more than half of tariff costs to consumers through higher prices, and 55 percent plan to raise prices by up to 15 percent within the next six months.