Nintendo may be about to " follow in Sony and Microsoft's footsteps " and announce a Switch 2 price hike, according to a report from video game consumer insights firm Niko Partners. Although the new system is currently outselling the original Nintendo Switch by a wide margin in its first year, spiking RAM costs and ongoing tariffs could change all that.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his country will slash its 100% import tax on Chinese EVs to just 6.1%, paving the way for companies like Geely, BYD, Xiaomi, and others to establish a second foothold in the North American automotive market. Canada is not going all-in on Chinese EVs, though. The country will initially cap annual imports at 49,000 vehicles. That cap will slowly increase to about 70,000 in around five years, according to the Associated Press.
There's great news for home chefs who prefer imported Italian pasta over American brands. Amid concerns that tariffs could kick favorite Italian pasta brands out of grocery stores, the United States has reversed course after completing an initial review of the alleged U.S. pricing practices of 13 Italian pasta brands. Higher pasta tariffs were initially passed by Congress in September, with the U.S. imposing a 92% anti-dumping duty on top of the existing 15% tariff on products imported from the EU, citing concerns that Italian pasta prices were too low.
e*thirteen will shift its US sales model starting January 1, 2026, moving from third-party distributors to dealer-direct sales from Petaluma, California. Previously, its products were distributed by QBP, BTI, and dealer-direct, but it will now focus on direct sales via its website ( www.ethirteen.com). This change is in response to recent market changes, namely, new import tariffs in the USA. While many companies have raised retail prices and squeezed dealer margins, e*thirteen believes increasing prices now, amid a post-pandemic inventory glut, would harm consumers and the brand.
Over the last few months, we've been seeing a lot of UPS shipments, in particular, becoming stuck and being lost or disposed of This all stems from the ending of the de minimis, said Wasserbach. Their [UPS's] whole business model changed once the de minimis was ended. And they just didn't have the capacity to do the clearance a lot of people are expecting to receive international packages, and they're just never gonna get them.
Lately, it's felt like open season on a lot of new electric vehicles that American consumers were excited about. With the EV tax credits gone and carmakers both foreign and domestic stinging from tariff bills, many new all-electric models have been postponed, pushed back indefinitely, had their U.S. visas revoked or canceled outright. Yet Toyotaone carmaker that's fairly late to the game with modern EVssays it's full speed ahead, in spite of those conditions.
Cannavo explained that the company had, relatively recently, been in dire financial straits. He worked to streamline Super73's operations, successfully cutting operating costs by 60%. He also realigned the company with its goal of innovating and shifted its focus toward making its products safer, more strictly adherent to e-bike laws, and more accessible to the masses. The brand's latest e-bike, the MZFT (Mizfit?), is the first in a string of upcoming models to exemplify this ethos.
Music collectors can breathe a sigh of relief: vinyl records and CDs won't be impacted by Donald Trump's new US import tariffs. It has been confirmed by US Customs and Border Protection that physical music formats, including vinyl records, CDs and cassettes, are exempt from the tariffs that took effect last week, which will result in higher prices for countless items consumers purchase from other countries.
Mostly, I remember the fluffy pens. When I was in elementary and middle school, nothing could be cooler than a fluffy pen, at least until it got covered in backpack grime and started to look like an exceptionally long-tailed subway rat. And no place had fluffy pens in abundance like Claire's, a chain that sold accessories and other trinkets and, at the time, seemed to exist in every shopping center in America.
"Descriptive evidence shows that goods categories heavily exposed to imports have indeed experienced sizable price increases since the beginning of this year, relative to their prior trends."
