Poll: Nearly Half of Utahns Are Likely to Hold Off on Big Purchases Due to Trump Tariffs

Poll: Nearly half of Utahns are likely to hold off on big purchases due to Trump tariffs

New poll shows how many Utahns are likely to postpone buying a house or making other big purchases this year due to Trump tariffs.

Building New Facilities to Avoid Tariffs Won’t Be Easy – Construction Forum

From Industry Week: President Donald Trump wants high tariffs on imports to encourage companies to make products in the United States. However, doing so will be a challenge, engineering and building experts say. There aren’t a lot of buildings available nationwide to serve as factories, the costs to build new facilities are climbing and the prices of production equipment are on the rise as well. On June 4, Endeavor Business Media’s Manufacturing…

Are Trump’s tariffs keeping Utahns from making big purchases? Here’s what a new poll found - Finnoexpert

Nearly half of Utahns are less likely to make a major purchase like buying a new home this year due to President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, according to the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. The poll found 49% of Utahns are hesitating when it comes to spending significant sums of money as a result of the president’s ever-changing added costs on imported goods that have roiled financial markets since being announced earl…