{"id":1761,"date":"2026-02-23T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/trump-issues-new-tariffs-that-will-impact-farmers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:51:06","slug":"trump-issues-new-tariffs-that-will-impact-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/trump-issues-new-tariffs-that-will-impact-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Issues New Tariffs That Will Impact\u00a0Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 23, 2026 <\/b>\u2013 The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html\">struck down<\/a> many of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on Friday, prompting approval from multiple farm groups, several of which <a href=\"https:\/\/soygrowers.com\/news-releases\/asa-statement-on-supreme-court-tariff-case\/\">released <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nfu.org\/news\/nfu-responds-to-supreme-court-ruling-on-tariffs\/\">statements<\/a> asking him not to impose new tariffs and emphasizing farmers\u2019 need for clarity.<\/p>\n<p>The decision applied to the across-the-board 10 percent tariff and higher reciprocal tariffs on individual countries Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2025\/04\/02\/trump-announces-higher-tariffs-on-major-food-and-agricultural-trade-partners\/\">announced<\/a> last April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits\/\">under the<\/a> International Emergency Economic Powers Act.<\/p>\n<p>However, over the weekend, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/02\/imposing-a-temporary-import-surcharge-to-address-fundamental-international-payments-problems\/\">announced<\/a> new overall tariffs, using powers under a different law, section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. He then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/21\/business\/trump-global-tariffs-increase-supreme-court\">increased<\/a> that broad tariff rate to 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling against one form of tariff, we are not backing down\u2014not even for a second,\u201d Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecRollins\/status\/2024975668623151143\">a post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins said <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2025\/07\/29\/tariffs-impacting-farms-and-food-prices-will-change-again-this-week\/\">new trade deals<\/a> enabled by the tariffs led to an agricultural trade deficit of $41.5 billion in 2025, a drop from the $50 billion deficit that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economists had predicted. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ers.usda.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/_laserfiche\/outlooks\/113627\/AES-134.pdf?v=52231\">2025 deficit<\/a> was lower than predicted, but it increased significantly compared to the previous five years.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries, such as China, have <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2025\/11\/04\/farmers-struggle-with-tariffs-despite-china-deal-to-buy-us-soybeans\/\">shifted a portion<\/a> of agricultural purchases to other countries in reaction to the tariffs, shrinking markets for farmers, who have also been hit by higher prices on equipment, fertilizer, and other imported inputs.<\/p>\n<p>The end of higher reciprocal tariffs on some countries could lead to changes to prices of some of those goods, but separate tariffs on steel and aluminum that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/news\/machinery\/new-machinery\/what-farm-equipment-manufacturers-are-saying-about-50-steel-and-alum\">have raised<\/a> prices of farm machinery remain in place. Under the new law Trump is employing, the 15 percent overall rate will need Congressional approval after 150 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on Congress to exercise its oversight role to ensure trade policy supports\u2014not undermines\u2014America\u2019s family farmers and ranchers,\u201d National Farmers Union president Rob Larew said in a statement. \u201cOver the past year, tariffs have raised input costs, disrupted export markets and triggered retaliation against U.S. agricultural goods. In an already fragile farm economy, uncertainty has hit family operations hardest.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/food-policy-tracker#trump-issues-new-tariffs-that-will-impact-farmers\">Link to this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2026\/02\/23\/trump-issues-new-tariffs-that-will-impact-farmers\/\">Trump Issues New Tariffs That Will Impact\u00a0Farmers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/\">Civil Eats<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2026 \u2013 The Supreme Court struck down many of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}