Amazon this week claimed that’s costs had been remaining regular, however the information about President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the financial fallout is not getting any rosier: Just this week, Subaru introduced that costs on sure fashions had been getting hiked quickly. While the Japanese agency did not explicitly name out tariffs as the explanation, the truth that the will increase had been solely coming for the US market was telling.
This adopted on the heels of maybe the most important retailer to problem a worth enhance warning: Walmart. During a May 15 earnings name, the nation’s largest grocery chain mentioned that costs for issues like toys, tech and meals could be going up by the summer season. This prompted a response from Trump, who demanded that Walmart not enhance costs and eat the prices itself. This would not be the primary time that the president has lashed out towards an organization for probably telling the reality about his tariffs inflating costs — which, as I’ve written about extensively right here on CNET, is completely the case.
In this text, I’ve been monitoring simply that: the day by day impact of Trump’s tariffs on the costs of 11 common merchandise you may want or want to purchase, whether or not it’s a brand new telephone, laptop computer or your day by day espresso. So far, we have seen notable worth hikes for the flagship Xbox sport console, whereas every little thing else has, as Amazon claimed, remained regular except for occasional fluctuations which may not be tariff-related. That kind of consistency is way from sure, nevertheless, particularly with new reviews rising that Apple may be seeking to make iPhones costlier this 12 months.
CNET Tariff Tracker Index
Above, you may take a look at a chart with the typical worth of the 11 included objects over the course of 2025. This will assist provide you with a way of the general worth adjustments and fluctuations occurring. Further down, you’ll take a look at charts for every particular person product being tracked.
A current tariff settlement with China, much-hyped by the White House, did considerably reduce tariff charges towards the US’s greatest buying and selling associate. The new 30% price is simply short-term, nevertheless, and nonetheless traditionally excessive. It simply seems extra cheap subsequent to the ludicrous 145% price that was beforehand in place. As these negotiations transfer alongside, firms proceed to warn of impending worth hikes with the intention to cope with the brand new tariffs, together with Sony, which may probably imply a worth hike for its ever-popular PlayStation 5 consoles.
We’ll be updating this text often as costs change. It’s all within the title of serving to you make sense of issues, so you’ll want to test again occasionally. For extra, take a look at CNET’s information as to if it’s best to wait to make huge purchases or purchase them now and get skilled tips on the best way to put together for a recession.
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Methodology
We’re checking costs day by day and can replace the article and the related charts straight away to replicate any adjustments. The following charts present a single bullet level for every month, with the latest one labeled “Now” and displaying the present worth. For the previous months, we have gone with what was the commonest worth for every merchandise within the given month.
In most instances, the value stats utilized in these graphs had been pulled from Amazon utilizing the historic worth tracker software Keepa. For the iPhones, the costs come from Apple’s official supplies and are primarily based on the 128-gigabyte base mannequin of the most recent providing for every year: the iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and iPhone 16. For the Xbox Series X, the costs had been sourced from Best Buy utilizing the software PriceTracker. If any of those merchandise occur to be on sale at a given time, we’ll you’ll want to let and clarify how these worth drops differ from longer-term pricing traits that tariffs may cause.
The 11 merchandise we’re monitoring
Mostly what we’re monitoring on this article are digital gadgets and digital objects that CNET covers in depth, like iPhones and inexpensive 4K TVs — together with a typical bag of espresso, a extra humble product that is not produced within the US to any vital diploma.
The merchandise featured had been chosen for a number of causes: Some of them are common and/or inexpensive representatives for main client tech classes, like smartphones, TVs and sport consoles. Others are supposed to characterize issues that customers may purchase extra continuously, like printer ink or espresso beans. Some merchandise had been chosen over others as a result of they’re probably extra inclined to tariffs. Some of those merchandise have been reviewed by CNET or have been featured in a few of our greatest lists.
Below, we’ll get into extra about every particular person product.
iPhone 16
The iPhone is the most well-liked smartphone model within the US, so this was a transparent precedence for worth monitoring. The iPhone has additionally emerged as a significant focus for conversations about tariffs, given its reputation and its susceptibility to import taxes due to its abroad manufacturing, largely in China. Trump has reportedly been fixated on the concept the iPhone can and must be manufactured within the US, an concept that specialists have dismissed as a fantasy. Estimates have additionally instructed {that a} US-made iPhone would price as a lot as $3,500.
Apple has made a number of strikes this 12 months to guard its costs within the US as a lot as doable, like flying in bulk shipments of product forward of the tariffs taking impact and dealing to maneuver manufacturing for the American market from China to India, the place tariff charges are much less extreme. This latter transfer provoked a response from Trump, given his famous fixation on the iPhone, saying on Thursday that he “had somewhat drawback” with Tim Cook over the transfer, claiming with out proof that the Apple CEO pledged to convey extra manufacturing to the US. Cook and others near the corporate for years say that the provision chains for its merchandise are too advanced to maneuver manufacturing fully to the US.
Duracell AA batteries
A variety of the tech merchandise in your house may boast a chargeable vitality supply however particular person batteries are nonetheless an on a regular basis important and I can inform you from expertise that as quickly as you overlook about them, you will be needing to restock. The Duracell AAs we’re monitoring are among the bestselling batteries on Amazon.
Samsung DU7200 TV
Alongside smartphones, televisions are among the hottest tech merchandise on the market, even when they’re an rare buy. This explicit product is a well-liked entry-level 4K TV and was CNET’s choose for greatest total funds TV for 2025. Unlike numerous tech merchandise which have key provide traces in China, Samsung is a South Korean firm, so it might need some measure of tariff resistance.
Xbox Series X
Video sport software program and {hardware} are a market section anticipated to be hit laborious by the Trump tariffs. Microsoft’s Xbox is the primary console model to see worth hikes — the corporate cited “market circumstances” together with the rising price of growth. Most notably, this included a rise within the worth of the flagship Xbox Series X, up from $500 to $600. Numerous Xbox equipment had been additionally affected, and the corporate additionally mentioned that “sure” video games will ultimately see a worth hike from $70 to $80.
Initially, we had been monitoring the value of the far more common Nintendo Switch as a consultant of the gaming market. Nintendo has not but hiked the value of its handheld-console hybrid and confused that the $450 price ticket of the upcoming Switch 2 has not but been inflated due to tariffs. Sony, in the meantime, has to this point solely elevated costs on its PlayStation {hardware} in markets outdoors the US.
AirPods Pro 2
The newest iteration of Apple’s wildly common true-wireless earbuds are right here to characterize the headphone market. Much to the chagrin of the audiophiles on the market, a fast take a look at gross sales charts on Amazon reveals you simply how a lot the model dominates all headphone gross sales.
HP 962 CMY printer ink
This HP printer ink contains cyan, magenta and yellow multi functional product and lately noticed its worth soar from round $72 — the place it stayed for many of 2025 — to $80, which is round its highest worth over the past 5 years. We shall be holding tabs to see if this can be a long-term change or a quick uptick.
This product changed Overture PLA Filament for 3D printers on this piece, however we’re nonetheless monitoring that merchandise.
Anker 10,000-mAh, 30-watt energy financial institution
Anker’s equipment are perennially common within the tech house and the corporate has already introduced that a few of its merchandise will get costlier as a direct results of tariffs. This particular product has additionally been featured in a few of CNET’s lists of the very best moveable chargers. While the value has remained regular all year long, it’s presently on sale for $16 on Amazon, however just for Prime members.
Bose TV speaker
Soundbars have develop into essential purchases, given the usually iffy high quality of the audio system constructed into TVs. While not the most important or the very best providing within the house, the Bose TV Speaker is likely one of the extra inexpensive soundbar choices on the market, particularly hailing from a model as common as Bose.
Oral-B Pro 1000 electrical toothbrush
They may be much more costly than their conventional counterparts, however electrical toothbrushes stay a preferred alternative for shoppers due to how properly they get the job performed. I do know my dentist will not let up on how a lot I would like one. This explicit Oral-B providing was CNET’s total alternative for the very best electrical toothbrush for 2025.
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook
Lenovo is notable among the many huge laptop computer producers for being a Chinese firm making its merchandise particularly inclined to Trump’s tariffs.
Starbucks Ground Coffee (28-ounce bag)
Coffee is included on this tracker due to its ubiquity — I’m definitely ingesting an excessive amount of of it as of late — and since it is uniquely inclined to Trump’s tariff agenda. Famously, espresso beans can solely be grown inside a sure distance from Earth’s equator, a tropical span largely outdoors the US and often known as the “Coffee Belt.”
Hawaii is the one a part of the US that may produce espresso beans, with information from USAFacts displaying that 11.5 million kilos had been harvested there within the 2022-23 season — little greater than a drop within the mug, because the US consumed 282 instances that quantity of espresso throughout that interval. Making issues worse, Hawaiian espresso manufacturing has declined prior to now few years.
All that to say: Americans get nearly all of their espresso from abroad, making it some of the probably merchandise to see worth hikes from tariffs.
