{"id":19312,"date":"2025-09-03T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:41:17","slug":"trumps-tariffs-and-immigration-policies-are-why-your-amazon-packages-are-so-expensive-and-will-take-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19312","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Tariffs and Immigration Policies Are Why Your Amazon Packages Are So Expensive and Will Take Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff regime is making everything from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielDiMartino\/status\/1961452396057444763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American-made steel weights<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/28\/tariffs-will-simply-put-us-all-out-of-business-trumps-trade-war-is-crushing-american-crafters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imported yarn<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/retail\/amazon-price-hikes-essentials-60a7c7f3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;everyday essentials&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/blog\/immigration-toll-on-local-economies-what-the-data-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worker shortages<\/a>&nbsp;in key industries. These policies will work in tandem to slow down already expensive deliveries of your favorite goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/29\/trumps-tariffs-and-immigration-policies-are-why-your-amazon-packages-are-so-expensive-and-will-take-forever\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/29\/trumps-tariffs-and-immigration-policies-are-why-your-amazon-packages-are-so-expensive-and-will-take-forever<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff regime is making everything from American-made steel weights, imported yarn, and Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;everyday essentials&#8221; more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing worker shortages in key industries. These policies will work in tandem to slow down already expensive deliveries of your favorite goods.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/29\/trumps-tariffs-and-immigration-policies-are-why-your-amazon-packages-are-so-expensive-and-will-take-forever\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[453,221,217,165,26,493,25,290,1316,1407,208,141,170],"class_list":["post-19312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-amazon","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-imports","tag-inflation","tag-prices","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19313,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions\/19313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}