'Frightening': US restaurants, producers face tariff whiplash

For Brett Gitter, who makes his quality control instruments in China-based factories, Trump's planned tariff hike on goods from the country marks a further price surge to potentially startling levels for customers. "I add a surcharge at the bottom of every invoice to cover the expense of the tariff," he told AFP. "The bottom of the invoice now is going to say 54 percent," he added, referring to a new rate hitting Chinese imports starting next Wednesday. All of this stacks on an existing 25 percent...