Brian Lair on WNYC. So you've probably been hearing the tariffs and trade deals headlines

in recent days yesterday with the EU, last week with Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

In some cases, it seems like the U.S. will be imposing tariffs on their exports to us,

like 15% now for most things coming from the EU,

but they won't be taxing U.S. exports to them.

But an article in Kiplinger, the personal finance publication,

had this headline the other day, GM not planning to raise car prices, despite tariff hit, their CFO says.

So let's talk about that and the bigger picture of the relationship between these tariff changes

and what

Americans are paying and will pay for things with Alexandra's focus, personal finance reporter

for Kiplinger. Alexandra, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC. Of course. Thank you so much for having

me. And listeners, as we've been inviting you to do all year regarding the tariffs, help us report this story.

Is your business eating extra costs for now, like apparently GM is?

Several other articles have been saying that's been a trend in corporate America.

Does this apply to you or your company or any other tariffs comments or questions?

212-433. WNYC, 212, 433-9-692, call or text.

So, Alexandra, you reported that GM's quarterly report released this month

showed more than a billion dollar cost of tariffs to the company.

Did they get specific?

Or can you about how they're feeling that?

Yeah, absolutely.

So this is a trend we've seen basically across the automobile industry

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