If you use medicine, sit on furniture, or get stuff delivered by truck, take note of new Trump administration import taxes.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. President Trump has unveiled a new batch of tariffs to start the 1st of October.

Medicine, heavy trucks, and household furniture. Marketplaces Nancy Marshall Gensers following this.

In a social media post, President Trump says the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on imports of any

branded or patented pharmaceutical product. There will be an exception for companies that are

building plants in the U.S., that is, Trump says, if they've broken

ground or a project is under construction. The impact of this import tax isn't clear, though,

since according to the FDA, about 90% of all U.S. prescriptions are filled with generic drugs,

which won't be affected by the new tariff. Trump also announced a 50% duty on cabinets, a 30% import tax on upholstered furniture,

and a 25% tariff on imports of heavy trucks.

All these new duties start October 1st.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

We're talking here four days, 17 hours until a partial federal

government shutdown is possible. Services deemed essential would keep going, but federal workers

wouldn't get paid until the budget impasse is resolved. A shutdown will especially shake the

sixth largest metro area in the U.S., the national capital region that includes

Washington, D.C., home. It's a metro that's home to more than six million people, Marketplace's

senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams reports. Between the Doge layoffs and cuts to federal grants

and research, unemployment here in the D.C. area is up six-tenths of a percent year-over-year

as of June. While in very large metro areas as a whole in the country, it's basically flat.

Tracy Haddon Lowe is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been tracking the impact of Trump

administration policies in the region. She says the housing market has

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