Trump shook the world duties. Only the “pink” did not change

Donald Trump decided to overturn the world trade table, shaking it with customs duties. He did not touch one issue, probably to the despair of Melania's wife, namely tariff policy, which favors men at the expense of women.

Dollar is more expensive – so much more you have to pay for women's clothing compared to men. The disproportion results from about three percent of customs duties addressed to women. This is not a new issue, because it even gained the nickname of the “pink tariff”.

In the scale of the entire economy, this means that to dress ladies have to pay over $ 2 billion a year more, according to the Progressive Policy Institute report quoted by CNN News.

There is more expensive women's underwear

Most of the imported clothing and footwear are classified according to gender in a tariff system, which determines the customs rates for all categories of goods reaching the USA. According to Edward Gressler, vice president and the Director for Trade and Markets in Think Tank, who developed the cited study of customs rates for women's clothing increased on average 16.7 percent. In 2022 – by 2.9 percentage points more than the average customs rate for men's clothing (i.e. 13.6 percent).

For example, the duty for women's suits in 2017 was 15.1 percent, and for men at the same time – 13.3 percent. The women's underwear tariff was set at 12.8 percent, and for male – 8.6 percent

To find the source of this disproportion, one should go back to the 1930s and 1940s, when the clothing industry for women was only a fraction of this male. At that time, it was men who was the main source of employment and the driving force of the economy. As a result, American producers lobbyed in favor of reducing customs duties and the abolition of trade barriers for this branch. And so it stayed.

Clothing companies are fighting duties and fallen?

Well -known clothing concerns, i.e. Steve Madden, Asics, Columbia Sportswear and others have dragged the American administration before the orchard. However, the lawsuit did not give anything – the judges said that the tariff rates were not designed in a discriminatory manner.

The government is also not eager to change. It's just that on the initiative of two demorators Lizzie Fletcher from Texas and Brittana Pettersen from Colorado Department of State and other agencies are to examine the impact of tariffs on women and other consumer groups.

Now, however, another problem has come – Almost all clothing sold in the United States is imported, and thus consumers must face “good morning” from 64 percent. higher prices – lists Yale Budget Lab.

Socks, underwear, t-shirts and the rest of the “basic” clothing by definition are covered with higher customs rates than luxury clothing. In this context, the tariff increase will hit primarily low -income consumers. – The increase in costs will be higher at a low end than at the luxurious end, “said Edward Gresser. – Americans at” junk rates “will bear a significant part of the tariff loads – he adds.

Women will pay more

Although Trump's duties can reduce the gap between male and women's clothing tariffs, they finally extract sex wallets and less. In 2023, American households spent an average of $ 655 on clothing, and $ 406 on male.

– By introducing new, huge duties, President Trump loses the chance to face historically regressive and misogytic features of the “global free trade system, said Steve Lamar, president of American Apparel & Footwear Association. But this is what nobody expected from it.

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