More companies are starting to warn that they will have to pass on higher costs to American consumers, raising prices for products like strollers, mattresses, power tools and cast-iron cookware as President Donald Trump’s tariffs take hold.

Some company officials said they had been left with no choice but to raise prices as they pay more to import goods and materials into the United States. Other firms have said they will soon run out of inventory for certain products because they have paused orders from China.

Trump has upended the global trading system, hitting foreign countries with punishing levies in an attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States and take aim at what he calls “unfair” trade practices. But economic studies have found that the burden of higher tariffs typically falls on domestic consumers and companies.Although Trump has scaled back some tariffs and paused others as he pursues trade deals with foreign nations, the impacts of his policies are already starting to eat into household budgets and frustrate Americans who have noticed higher prices for their goods.

Some major companies have recently warned about impending price increases.

Stanley Black & Decker said Wednesday that it raised prices on its tools and outdoor products last month and will raise them again later this year. German sportswear company Adidas said this week that steeper tariffs would eventually lead to higher prices for U.S. customers.

Executives at Procter & Gamble, which makes products like Bounty paper towels and Tide detergent, said last week that the company would most likely increase prices for some products to mitigate the effects of higher tariffs. And officials at Hasbro recently said the toymaker would “have to raise prices,” although it would try to “minimize the burden” on customers.

Loophole ends

Some of the most immediate price increases have come in response to the elimination of a loophole that allowed items worth $800 or less from China to enter the United States without import fees. Shein and Temu, popular Chinese e-commerce platforms, began adjusting prices for U.S. customers last week before the end of the tariff exemption Friday.

Michelle Hall, 48, a secretary in Snohomish, Wash., said she started buying products from Temu late last year and has since spent about $2,300 on furniture, car mats, sweaters, Christmas gifts and other inexpensive goods from the platform. “It’s addicting and fun when you get your packages,” Hall said.

But over the weekend, she discovered extra “import charges” tacked onto her total. A cart of six items from Temu that would have usually cost her $83.80 would cost an extra $92.08 because of import fees, Hall said. On Wednesday, she noticed that the platform appeared to take down many products that would have incurred import fees.

Hall said she planned to abandon Temu because she did not want to pay higher prices.

She said she still hoped that Trump’s tariffs would have some long-term benefits. She voted for Trump in November, thinking his trade policies could help reduce the deficit, create manufacturing jobs and make the nation less dependent on foreign countries.

But Hall said she was not sure if those benefits would materialize. “In the meantime, I feel like citizens are suffering,” she said.

Hall said she never thought her own costs would increase, and she originally hoped that Trump would quickly bring prices down.

“I wanted to have faith,” she said. “I don’t have that faith anymore.”

Toys, strollers, car seats

Some industries are being hit particularly hard because the bulk of their products are made in China. About 90% of durable baby and children’s products sold in the United States are manufactured overseas, with the vast majority produced in China, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association.

Several companies that sell strollers and car seats said they would have to increase prices to offset higher costs from tariffs. UPPAbaby said last month that it would adjust prices across most products. Evenflo increased prices between 10% to 40% for most of its products Thursday. Cybex also increased prices for some products Thursday, which company officials said was “unavoidable.”

Steven Dunn, the CEO of Munchkin, which sells products like high chairs, strollers and diaper pails, said the company will likely have to increase prices at a minimum of 20% for many products soon. And Dunn said the company might have to discontinue 30% to 40% of its products after its current inventory dwindles within an estimated 10 weeks.

“There are a lot of products that we just will not order anymore at the current rates,” Dunn said. “You can’t pass on a 145% tariff to the consumer and expect them to buy the same product.”

Although Trump has urged companies to make more products in the United States, producing more baby products domestically is complex. “The tooling, the skills and the automation just doesn’t exist here,” Dunn said.

Materials imported

Companies that make products in America are not immune to the impacts of higher import fees, either.

Vy Nguyen, the CEO at Avocado Green Mattress, said all of its organic mattresses were made in the Los Angeles area. But many of the “core natural components” that are used to make its mattresses, such as wool and latex, are sourced from countries including India, Thailand and Guatemala. Those materials have risen in price because Trump has instituted a 10% blanket tariff on nearly all trading partners.

Avocado plans to increase mattress prices by about 6% starting Tuesday, company officials said.

Some brands have been more vocal about price increases because they are worried about their ability to pass on cost increases to consumers, said Simeon Siegel, a retail analyst at BMO Capital Markets. The companies want to ensure that consumers “don’t feel like they’re having the rug pulled out from under them,” he said.