A commerce court docket has dominated Trump’s tariff barrage unlawful, however the opportunity of costs climbing stays.
For CNET’s tariff worth tracker, I’ve been keeping track of a number of merchandise which have a excessive probability of being affected by President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda. Most costs I’ve been taking a look at have remained secure up to now, other than notable will increase for the Xbox Series X and a budget-friendly 4K TV, and occasional reductions throughout massive sale intervals, which is at the moment the case for some fashionable earbuds, an reasonably priced soundbar and a bestselling pack of batteries. With all that mentioned, the broader influence of those import taxes remains to be on the horizon, particularly as Trump now claims that tariff charges in opposition to China are going again as much as 55% quickly.
The Trump administration has additionally been working to undo a commerce court docket ruling, which discovered that Trump has no authority to set tariffs as he has been — a transfer now being argued earlier than an appeals court docket. We’ll see how that finally performs out, however for now, the likelihood that the president’s tariff insurance policies will result in worth hikes stays probably. That’s why I’m persevering with to observe a number of key merchandise you may want or want to purchase quickly, to maintain monitor of the potential tariff impacts.
CNET Tariff Tracker Index
Above, you possibly can take a look at a chart with the typical worth of the 11 merchandise included on this piece over the course of 2025. This will assist offer you a way of the general worth adjustments and fluctuations occurring. Further down, you can take a look at charts for every particular person product being tracked.
For now, the typical worth for all the merchandise we’re protecting is down noticeably in comparison with May, although this is perhaps a results of the assorted gross sales going round to kick off the summer season. You can in all probability anticipate that pattern to proceed into subsequent month when Amazon holds its Prime Day sale, which I anticipate will likely be time to make a whole lot of purchases earlier than tariff impacts actually begin to take maintain.
We’ll be updating this text commonly as costs change. It’s all within the identify of serving to you make sense of issues, so make sure you examine again on occasion. For extra, take a look at CNET’s information as to if you must wait to make massive purchases or purchase them now and get knowledgeable recommendations on find out how to put together for a recession.
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Methodology
We’re checking costs each day and can replace the article and the related charts immediately to mirror any adjustments. The following charts present a single bullet level for every month, with the newest one labeled “Now” and exhibiting the present worth. For the previous months, we have gone with what was the most typical worth for every merchandise within the given month.
In most instances, the worth stats utilized in these graphs have been pulled from Amazon utilizing the historic price-tracker device Keepa. For the iPhones, the costs come from Apple’s official supplies and are based mostly 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 have been sourced from Best Buy utilizing the device PriceTracker. If any of those merchandise occur to be on sale at a given time, we’ll make sure you let you recognize and clarify how these worth drops differ from longer-term pricing tendencies that tariffs may cause.
The 11 merchandise we’re monitoring
Mostly what we’re monitoring on this article are digital gadgets and digital gadgets that CNET covers in depth, like iPhones and reasonably priced 4K TVs — together with a typical bag of espresso, a extra humble product that is not produced within the US to any important diploma.
The merchandise featured have been chosen for a couple of causes: Some of them are fashionable and/or reasonably priced representatives for main client tech classes, like smartphones, TVs and sport consoles. Others are supposed to characterize issues that customers may purchase extra incessantly, like printer ink or espresso beans. Some merchandise have been chosen over others as a result of they’re probably extra vulnerable 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, and stick round until the top for a rundown of another merchandise price noting.
iPhone 16
The iPhone is the preferred 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 that the iPhone can and needs to be manufactured within the US, an concept that specialists have dismissed as a fantasy. Estimates have additionally steered {that a} US-made iPhone would value as a lot as $3,500.
Something to notice about this graph: The worth listed is the one you will see if you happen to purchase your cellphone via a significant service. If you, say, purchase direct from Apple or Best Buy and not using a service concerned, you will be charged an additional $30, so in some locations, you may see the record worth of the usual iPhone 16 listed as $830.
Apple’s been taking a couple of steps to guard its costs within the face of those tariffs, flying in bulk shipments of product earlier than they took impact and planning to maneuver manufacturing for the US market from China to India. This latter transfer drew the anger of Trump once more, threatening the corporate with a 25% tariff in the event that they did not transfer manufacturing to the US, an thought CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly shot down prior to now. This got here after Trump gave a tariff exemption to digital gadgets together with smartphones, so the way forward for that transfer appears doubtful now.
Apple’s flagship system remains to be the top-selling smartphone globally, as of Q1 of this 12 months, though new analysis from the agency Counterpoint means that tariff uncertainty will trigger the model’s progress to stall a bit all through the remainder of 2025.
Duracell AA batteries
Lots 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 let you know from expertise that as quickly as you neglect about them, you will be needing to restock. The Duracell AAs we’re monitoring are among the bestselling batteries on Amazon.
This explicit pack hasn’t seen a lot shift in pricing in the previous couple of months, however it’s at the moment round $3 off on Amazon, so it is a good time to select up some batteries if you happen to want them.
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 finest total price range TV for 2025. Unlike a whole lot of tech merchandise which have key provide strains in China, Samsung is a South Korean firm so it might need some measure of tariff resistance. This mannequin is at the moment about $29 dearer than regular on Amazon, however we’ll have to attend and see if this can be a non permanent change or a extra everlasting shift in pricing.
Xbox Series X
Video sport software program and {hardware} are a market section anticipated to be hit exhausting by the Trump tariffs. Microsoft’s Xbox is the primary console model to see worth hikes — the corporate cited “market situations” together with the rising value of improvement. Most notably, this included a rise within the worth of the flagship Xbox Series X, up from $500 to $600. Numerous Xbox equipment additionally have been affected and the corporate additionally mentioned that “sure” video games will ultimately see a worth hike from $70 to $80.
Initially, we have been monitoring the worth of the way more fashionable Nintendo Switch as a consultant of the gaming market. Nintendo has not but hiked the worth of its handheld-console hybrid and pressured that the $450 price ticket of the upcoming Switch 2 has not but been inflated due to tariffs. Sony, in the meantime, has up to now solely elevated costs on its PlayStation {hardware} in markets outdoors the US.
AirPods Pro 2
The newest iteration of Apple’s wildly fashionable true-wireless earbuds are right here to characterize the headphone market. Much to the chagrin of the audiophiles on the market, a fast have a look at gross sales charts on Amazon exhibits you simply how a lot the model dominates all headphone gross sales. Earlier within the 12 months, they tended to hover round $199 on the positioning, a notable low cost from its $249 record worth, however the worth is at the moment the way more attractive $169, so transfer quick in order for you an reasonably priced pair. (Or possibly simply look forward to the rumored AirPods Pro 3.)
HP 962 CMY printer ink
This HP printer ink consists of cyan, magenta and yellow multi functional product and lately noticed its worth bounce from round $72 — the place it stayed for many of 2025 — to $80, which is round its highest worth during the last 5 years. We will likely 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 fashionable within the tech area and the corporate has already introduced that a few of its merchandise will get dearer as a direct results of tariffs. This particular product has additionally been featured in a few of CNET’s lists of one of the best transportable chargers. This explicit mannequin is exhibiting as out-of-stock on Amazon in the interim, however was most lately again as much as $26 after a quick sale.
Bose TV speaker
Soundbars have change into vital purchases, given the customarily iffy high quality of the audio system constructed into TVs. While not the largest or one of the best providing within the area, the Bose TV Speaker is likely one of the extra reasonably priced soundbar choices on the market, particularly hailing from a model as fashionable as Bose. This product has been one of many steadiest on this record by way of worth all year long, however it’s at the moment on sale for $199, probably as a part of Amazon’s Memorial Day sale. So, if you happen to’re in search of an reasonably priced, tariff-free TV speaker, now is perhaps the time.
Oral-B Pro 1000 electrical toothbrush
They is perhaps much more costly than their conventional counterparts however electrical toothbrushes stay a preferred alternative for customers due to how properly they get the job accomplished. I do know my dentist will not let up on how a lot I want one. This explicit Oral-B providing was CNET’s total alternative for one of the best electrical toothbrush for 2025.
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook
Lenovo is notable among the many massive laptop computer producers for being a Chinese firm making its merchandise particularly vulnerable to Trump’s tariffs.
Starbucks Ground Coffee (28-ounce bag)
Coffee is included on this tracker due to its ubiquity — I’m actually ingesting an excessive amount of of it as of late — and since it is uniquely vulnerable 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 generally known as the “Coffee Belt.”
Hawaii is the one a part of the US that may produce espresso beans, with knowledge from USAFacts exhibiting that 11.5 million kilos have 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 virtually all of their espresso from abroad, making it one of the crucial probably merchandise to see worth hikes from tariffs.
Other merchandise
As talked about earlier than, we sometimes swap out merchandise with totally different ones that bear notable worth shifts. Here are some issues now not featured above, however that we’re nonetheless keeping track of:
- Nintendo Switch: The baseline handheld-console hybrid has held regular round $299 most locations — together with Amazon — because it launched in 2017. Whether or not that worth will likely be impacted by tariffs or the approaching launch of the Switch 2 stays to be seen. This product was changed above with the Xbox Series X.
- Overture PLA 3D printer filament: This is a well-liked alternative on Amazon for the fabric wanted to run 3D printers. It has held regular round $15 on Amazon all 12 months. This product was changed above by the HP 962 printer ink.
Here are some merchandise we additionally needed to single out that have not been featured with a graph but:
- Razer Blade 18 (2025), 5070 Ti version: The newest revision of Razer’s largest gaming laptop computer noticed a $300 worth bump lately, with the bottom mannequin featured an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card now priced at $3,500 forward of launch, in comparison with the $3,200 worth introduced in February. While Razer has stayed mum concerning the reasoning, it did beforehand droop direct gross sales to the US as Trump’s tariff plans have been ramping up in April.
- Asus ROG Ally X: The premium model of Asus’s Steam Deck competitor handheld gaming PC lately noticed a worth hike from $799 to $899, coinciding with the announcement of the corporate’s upcoming Xbox-branded Ally handhelds.
