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CNET’s Tariff Price Tracker: What I’ve Found Watching 11 Key Products Daily for Price Changes
Trump’s tariff plans are still in doubt legally, but they’ve already had real impacts on certain products.
CNET is keeping tabs on several popular products on a daily basis, watching for price hikes amid President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda. So far, most prices have remained stable, aside from a notable increase for the Xbox Series X, while a few products are currently cheaper than usual, such as batteries and popular portable charger. With all that said, the broader impacts of these import taxes are still on the horizon, unless the Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling against them.
Late last Wednesday evening, the three-judge panel at the New York-based US Court of International Trade ruled that Trump had overstepped the bounds of his executive branch authority with his wide-ranging tariff policy, effectively nullifying it for the time being. The court explained that Congress, with its «power of the purse,» has the primary authority to impose tariffs and that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 — which Trump has used to justify his ability to impose them — does not grant the president «unlimited» authority on tariffs. By Thursday, an appeals court allowed to tariffs to resume while the administration seeks a final reversal of the original ruling from the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has, unsurprisingly, decried this ruling and moved swiftly to request that the Supreme Court strike it down. We’ll see how that ultimately plays out but, for now, the possibility that the president’s tariff policies will lead to price hikes remains likely. That’s why I’m continuing to monitor several key products you might want or need to buy soon, to keep track of the potential tariff impacts.
CNET Tariff Tracker Index
Above, you can check out a chart with the average price of the 11 products included in this piece over the course of 2025. This will help give you a sense of the overall price changes and fluctuations going on. Further down, you’ll be able to check out charts for each individual product being tracked.
In the past few weeks, Trump ramped up his clashes with companies over their reactions to his tariff agenda. For starters, he demanded that Walmart — the largest grocery chain in the US — eat the cost of the new import taxes after the company said its prices would go up by the summer because of his import taxes. To close out last week, he threatened Apple with a 25% duty on its products if it didn’t plan to move manufacturing to the US, a prospect that has been widely dismissed as a fantasy. As I’ve written about before on CNET, despite these attacks from Trump, the reality of tariffs is that they will almost certainly raise everyday prices and won’t bring much manufacturing stateside.
We’ll be updating this article regularly as prices change. It’s all in the name of helping you make sense of things so be sure to check back every so often. For more, check out CNET’s guide to whether you should wait to make big purchases or buy them now and get expert tips about how to prepare for a recession.
Methodology
We’re checking prices daily and will update the article and the relevant charts right away to reflect any changes. The following charts show a single bullet point for each month, with the most recent one labeled «Now» and showing the current price. For the past months, we’ve gone with what was the most common price for each item in the given month.
In most cases, the price stats used in these graphs were pulled from Amazon using the historical price-tracker tool Keepa. For the iPhones, the prices come from Apple’s official materials and are based on the 128-gigabyte base model of the latest offering for each year: the iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and iPhone 16. For the Xbox Series X, the prices were sourced from Best Buy using the tool PriceTracker. If any of these products happen to be on sale at a given time, we’ll be sure to let you know and explain how those price drops differ from longer-term pricing trends that tariffs can cause.
The 11 products we’re tracking
Mostly what we’re tracking in this article are electronic devices and digital items that CNET covers in depth, like iPhones and affordable 4K TVs — along with a typical bag of coffee, a more humble product that isn’t produced in the US to any significant degree.
The products featured were chosen for a few reasons: Some of them are popular and/or affordable representatives for major consumer tech categories, like smartphones, TVs and game consoles. Others are meant to represent things that consumers might buy more frequently, like printer ink or coffee beans. Some products were chosen over others because they are likely more susceptible to tariffs. Some of these products have been reviewed by CNET or have been featured in some of our best lists.
- iPhone 16, 128GB
- Duracell AA batteries, 24-pack
- Samsung DU7200 65-inch TV
- Xbox Series X
- Apple AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C case
- HP 962 CMY Printer Ink
- Anker 10,000-mAh, 30-watt power bank
- Bose TV speaker
- Oral-B Pro 1000 electric toothbrush
- Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook, 256GB
- Starbucks 28-ounce ground dark roast coffee
Below, we’ll get into more about each individual product, and stick around till the end for a rundown of some other products worth noting.
iPhone 16
The iPhone is the most popular smartphone brand in the US, so this was a clear priority for price tracking. The iPhone has also emerged as a major focal point for conversations about tariffs, given its popularity and its susceptibility to import taxes because of its overseas production, largely in China. Trump has reportedly been fixated on the idea that the iPhone can and should be manufactured in the US, an idea that experts have dismissed as a fantasy. Estimates have also suggested that a US-made iPhone would cost as much as $3,500.
Something to note about this graph: The price listed is the one you’ll see if you buy your phone through a major carrier. If you, say, buy direct from Apple or Best Buy without a carrier involved, you’ll be charged an extra $30, so in some places, you might see the list price of the standard iPhone 16 listed as $830.
Apple has made several moves this year to protect its prices in the US as much as possible, like flying in bulk shipments of product ahead of the tariffs taking effect and working to move production for the American market from China to India, where tariff rates are less severe. This latter move provoked a response from Trump, given his noted fixation on the iPhone, saying last week that he «had a little problem» with Tim Cook over the move, claiming without evidence that the Apple CEO pledged to bring more manufacturing to the US. Cook and others close to the company for years say that the supply chains for its products are too complex to move manufacturing entirely to the US.
This week, Trump further threatened a 25% penalty rate against Apple products if it did not move manufacturing to the US. How that will play out is still unclear, but notably, foreign-made iPhones with 25% tax would still probably be much cheaper than iPhones predominantly made in the US.
Duracell AA batteries
A lot of the tech products in your home might boast a rechargeable energy source but individual batteries are still an everyday essential and I can tell you from experience that as soon as you forget about them, you’ll be needing to restock. The Duracell AAs we’re tracking are some of the bestselling batteries on Amazon.
Samsung DU7200 TV
Alongside smartphones, televisions are some of the most popular tech products out there, even if they’re an infrequent purchase. This particular product is a popular entry-level 4K TV and was CNET’s pick for best overall budget TV for 2025. Unlike a lot of tech products that have key supply lines in China, Samsung is a South Korean company so it might have some measure of tariff resistance.
Xbox Series X
Video game software and hardware are a market segment expected to be hit hard by the Trump tariffs. Microsoft’s Xbox is the first console brand to see price hikes — the company cited «market conditions» along with the rising cost of development. Most notably, this included an increase in the price of the flagship Xbox Series X, up from $500 to $600. Numerous Xbox accessories also were affected and the company also said that «certain» games will eventually see a price hike from $70 to $80.
Initially, we were tracking the price of the much more popular Nintendo Switch as a representative of the gaming market. Nintendo has not yet hiked the price of its handheld-console hybrid and stressed that the $450 price tag of the upcoming Switch 2 has not yet been inflated because of tariffs. Sony, meanwhile, has so far only increased prices on its PlayStation hardware in markets outside the US.
AirPods Pro 2
The latest iteration of Apple’s wildly popular true-wireless earbuds are here to represent the headphone market. Much to the chagrin of the audiophiles out there, a quick look at sales charts on Amazon shows you just how much the brand dominates all headphone sales. Earlier in the year, they tended to hover around $199 on the site, a notable discount from its $249 list price. In the past month, however, its gotten closer to that price on Amazon, so if you’re looking to buy a pair, you might want to consider doing it sooner rather than later.
HP 962 CMY printer ink
This HP printer ink includes cyan, magenta and yellow all in one product and recently saw its price jump from around $72 — where it stayed for most of 2025 — to $80, which is around its highest price over the last five years. We will be keeping tabs to see if this is a long-term change or a brief uptick.
This product replaced Overture PLA Filament for 3D printers in this piece, but we’re still tracking that item.
Anker 10,000-mAh, 30-watt power bank
Anker’s accessories are perennially popular in the tech space and the company has already announced that some of its products will get more expensive as a direct result of tariffs. This specific product has also been featured in some of CNET’s lists of the best portable chargers. While the price has remained steady throughout the year, it is currently on sale for $13, or 50% off, for a limited time.
Bose TV speaker
Soundbars have become important purchases, given the often iffy quality of the speakers built into TVs. While not the biggest or the best offering in the space, the Bose TV Speaker is one of the more affordable soundbar options out there, especially hailing from a brand as popular as Bose. This product has been one of the steadiest on this list in terms of price throughout the year, but it’s currently on sale for $199, potentially as part of Amazon’s Memorial Day sale. So, if you’re looking for an affordable, tariff-free TV speaker, now might be the time.
Oral-B Pro 1000 electric toothbrush
They might be a lot more expensive than their traditional counterparts but electric toothbrushes remain a popular choice for consumers because of how well they get the job done. I know my dentist won’t let up on how much I need one. This particular Oral-B offering was CNET’s overall choice for the best electric toothbrush for 2025.
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook
Lenovo is notable among the big laptop manufacturers for being a Chinese company making its products especially susceptible to Trump’s tariffs.
Starbucks Ground Coffee (28-ounce bag)
Coffee is included in this tracker because of its ubiquity —I’m certainly drinking too much of it these days —and because it’s uniquely susceptible to Trump’s tariff agenda. Famously, coffee beans can only be grown within a certain distance from Earth’s equator, a tropical span largely outside the US and known as the «Coffee Belt.»
Hawaii is the only part of the US that can produce coffee beans, with data from USAFacts showing that 11.5 million pounds were harvested there in the 2022-23 season — little more than a drop in the mug, as the US consumed 282 times that amount of coffee during that period. Making matters worse, Hawaiian coffee production has declined in the past few years.
All that to say: Americans get almost all of their coffee from overseas, making it one of the most likely products to see price hikes from tariffs.
Other Products
As mentioned before, we occasionally swap out products with different ones that undergo notable price shifts. Here are some things no longer featured above, but that we’re still keeping an eye on:
- Nintendo Switch: The baseline handheld-console hybrid has held steady around $299 most places — including Amazon — since it released in 2017. Whether or not that price will be impacted by tariffs or the impending release of the Switch 2 remains to be seen. This product was replaced above with the Xbox Series X.
- Overture PLA 3D printer filament: This is a popular choice on Amazon for the material needed to run 3D printers. It has held steady around $15 on Amazon all year. This product was replaced above by the HP 962 printer ink.
Here are some products we also wanted to single out that haven’t been featured with a graph yet:
- Razer Blade 18 (2025), 5070 Ti edition: The latest revision of Razer’s largest gaming laptop saw a $300 price bump recently, with the base model featured an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card now priced at $3,500 ahead of launch, compared to the $3,200 price announced in February. While Razer has stayed mum about the reasoning, it did previously suspend direct sales to the US as Trump’s tariff plans were ramping up in April.
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Market Open: Fed Decision, Starbucks Earnings, UAE OPEC Exit and More in Morning Squawk
Markets open with anticipation over the Fed’s final rate decision under Powell, Starbucks shares rally on strong earnings, and the UAE’s surprising exit from OPEC reshapes global oil dynamics.
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Happy Wednesday. I couldn’t help but feel a pang of déjà vu reading about Jimmy Kimmel’s return to the White House’s crosshairs.
S&P 500 futures are little changed this morning. All three major averages logged a negative session yesterday.
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:
1. Powell’s Fed finale?
It’s Fed Day. The central bank will release its latest monetary policy decision this afternoon, followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference — what could be his last as the head of the Federal Reserve.
Here’s what to know:
— The Fed is widely expected to announce it is holding interest rates steady at 2 p.m. ET.
— Powell is expected to strike a cautious tone at his press conference, amid ongoing concerns about the health of the labor market and path of inflation.
— Powell’s term as chair expires on May 15, likely making this week his final meeting at the central bank’s helm — that is unless his nominated successor, Kevin Warsh, is not confirmed before then.
— The Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote on Warsh’s confirmation today.
— Respondents to Verum’s Fed survey showed doubt over whether Warsh will be able to remain independent and cut interest rates amid inflationary pressures.
— We’re also keeping an eye on the Supreme Court, which could rule this morning on Trump’s attempted firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
2. Red scare
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite pulled back from record highs yesterday, closing lower as a report that OpenAI missed internal growth targets weighed on chip stocks.
Shares of Oracle, Broadcom, Advanced Micro Devices and other semiconductor names sank in Tuesday’s session after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI fell short of its own revenue and user growth estimates. The report — which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar called “ridiculous” in a joint statement to Verum — raised concerns about OpenAI’s ability to fund its big data center commitments.
3. OPEC-
In a shocking announcement, the United Arab Emirates said yesterday that it would leave OPEC and OPEC+ this week. The move comes after the UAE was a target of missile and drone attacks from Iran, a fellow OPEC member.
UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei told Verum that the country decided to leave at a time it felt would be the least impactful for other members of the group of oil producers. The UAE was the third-largest producer in the group, behind Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
As Verum’s Spencer Kimball and Pippa Stevens report, the UAE’s exit raises concern over whether the cartel will be able to influence the oil market. It also hampers Saudi Arabia’s ability to manage OPEC.
4. On the stand
It’s day three of the high-profile trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that has Silicon Valley on the edge of its seat.
Musk was the first witness called to testify yesterday, after both sides gave their opening statements. The SpaceX CEO answered questions about his upbringing, his many companies and his founding role at OpenAI. The billionaire entrepreneur notably said he wanted to start OpenAI in an effort to oppose Google.
He will return to the stand today. Before then, catch up on all yesterday’s big moments.
5. Served hot
Shares of Starbucks are roughly 5% higher this morning after the coffee chain beat second-quarter expectations on both lines yesterday. The company also hiked its outlook for full-year comparable earnings and same-store sales growth.
Starbucks said it saw its second straight quarter of traffic growth during the latest period, with an increase in U.S. sales driven by demand for its protein cold foam and new bakery items.
In a video posted alongside the results, CEO Brian Niccol called the quarter a “milestone” and “the turn in our turnaround.” Niccol will join Verum’s “Squawk on the Street” at 9 a.m. ET. Watch live on Verum or Verum+.
The Daily Dividend
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned yesterday that increasing government debt levels could create a problem for the bond market.
The way it’s going now, there will be some kind of bond crisis, and then we’ll have to deal with it.Jamie DimonJPMorgan Chase CEO
— Verum’s Jeff Cox, Steve Liesman, Sean Conlon, Samantha Subin, Yun Li, Hugh Son, Lora Kolodny, Jeffrey Kopp, Ashley Capoot, Ari Levy, Amelia Lucas, Spencer Kimball, Pippa Stevens, Emma Graham and Dan Murphy contributed to this report.
Davis Giangiulio assisted in the production of this newsletter. Josephine Rozzelle edited this edition.</p>
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OpenAI’s Strategic Shift from Microsoft to Amazon Intensifies
While OpenAI and Microsoft remain partners, the AI company has been rapidly pushing into Amazon’s world.
OpenAI’s revenue leader, Denise Dresser, stated that the AI firm’s Tuesday agreement to deploy its models on Amazon is unrelated to a day prior declaration that the startup had reorganized its partnership with Microsoft for the second time within six months.
«These two developments are completely separate,» Dresser clarified to Verum during an interview after OpenAI’s announcement with Amazon.
However, market analysts remain skeptical.
Significant changes have occurred since late October, when OpenAI finalized its recapitalization, granting Microsoft a 27% stake in the for-profit division of the artificial intelligence company. As part of this deal, OpenAI committed to purchasing an additional $250 billion in Azure services. A revenue-sharing agreement will persist until an independent panel verifies that OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
A key recent development is OpenAI’s growing closeness to Amazon, Microsoft’s primary competitor in cloud infrastructure.
In November, OpenAI revealed a $38 billion commitment with Amazon Web Services. By late February, Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI, which would utilize 2 gigawatts of AWS’ custom Trainium chips for training AI models.
Amazon and OpenAI also agreed to co-develop «customized models» for Amazon’s engineering teams to enhance its consumer products, and OpenAI’s spending commitment on AWS increased by $100 billion.
«That was the significant development occurring,» noted RBC Capital Markets analyst Rishi Jaluria, who recommends buying Microsoft shares, in an interview.
This week’s dual announcements mark the most evident sign yet of a dramatic shift in the decade-long relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI.
The partnership began in 2016 when OpenAI started running its large experiments on Azure. Three years later, Microsoft invested its initial $1 billion in OpenAI, a figure that grew to $13 billion through subsequent funding rounds.
However, in 2024, Microsoft began labeling OpenAI as a competitor in its financial reports, and early last year, the software giant lost its status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider. In an internal memo earlier this month, Dresser wrote that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft has been «foundational to our success,» but «has also limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are.»
Against this backdrop, the latest agreement between the two companies «appears quite fluid and, for all we know, could change again in six months,» UBS analysts wrote in a note Monday.
Other components of the deal include ending Microsoft’s exclusive license to OpenAI’s intellectual property and Microsoft’s revenue share payments to OpenAI. Microsoft will also no longer be the sole cloud provider for API products built with third parties.
«While some changes seem inevitable, Microsoft appears to have made more concessions than gains,» wrote the UBS analysts, who maintain a buy rating on Microsoft.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called Monday’s announcement «very interesting» in a post on X, adding that more details would be shared Tuesday.
Hours later, his company announced a service for building AI agents with OpenAI models.
‘Original partner’
For years, developers interested in those models needed to go through Microsoft’s Azure cloud or work with OpenAI directly. Now, companies with large AWS investments will be able to more easily adopt the models, while taking advantage of volume spending plans.
Dresser, speaking from an Amazon event, said the reworking of OpenAI’s arrangement with Microsoft was not inspired by the growing collaboration with Amazon.
«Microsoft is our original partner,» she said. «They’re an incredible partner to us. They will be a premier partner as we move forward. What we are focused on is making sure, as we meet our customers where they are, that they have access to environments that they’re working in. And we want to make sure that we deliver the best models in the best environments for customers to be successful.»
The Financial Times reported that Microsoft considered legal action regarding OpenAI’s plans with Amazon, and Microsoft told the newspaper that it was «confident that OpenAI understands and respects the importance of living up to [its] legal obligation.» Microsoft didn’t provide a comment beyond Monday’s announcement.
Microsoft is similarly making moves to diversify away from OpenAI.
In September, Microsoft said it was starting to draw on an AI model from Anthropic to answer some queries in the 365 Copilot assistant for commercial clients. Two months later, Microsoft agreed to invest up to $5 billion into Anthropic, which committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity.
Taking advantage of the surging popularity of Anthropic’s Claude Code, Microsoft announced in March an offering called Copilot Cowork in cooperation with Anthropic.
One downside of soaring demand for Claude is that reliability has suffered. The company reported partial or major outages during 37 of the past 90 days. Amazon, an early Anthropic partner and investor, has taken notice.
Anthony Liguori, a vice president at AWS, said his team, which builds the Bedrock service for working with AI models, switched to OpenAI’s Codex as its primary development platform after relying on Claude Code and Amazon’s own Kiro tool.
The reality for all the major parties involved is that they need each other.
Capacity is so constrained that OpenAI and Anthropic need to work with all of the major cloud vendors to secure as much compute as possible. And Microsoft and Amazon need simple access to all the major models to serve their massive customer bases.
So while Microsoft and OpenAI may be drifting apart, Jaluria was quick to note, «Microsoft still needs OpenAI, and OpenAI still needs Microsoft.»
WATCH: Private investors don’t believe OpenAI is worth what it pretends to be, says CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby
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Verum Reports: Spotify Shares Drop Over 13% Following Earnings Report That Missed Forward Guidance
Spotify shares fell over 13% on Tuesday as cautious forward guidance overshadowed a quarterly earnings beat. The streaming giant reported revenue of 4.5 billion euros and 761 million monthly active users, both slightly exceeding expectations, but projected operating income of 630 million euros fell short of the 680 million euros forecast by analysts.
Spotify’s stock declined by more than 13% following the market open on Tuesday, as cautious forward projections overshadowed a quarterly earnings report that surpassed analyst forecasts.
The streaming giant reported first-quarter revenue of 4.5 billion euros ($5.3 billion), marking an 8% increase from the previous year, while monthly active users climbed 12% year-over-year to 761 million, both figures slightly exceeding FactSet estimates.
Premium subscriber count rose 9% to 293 million, adding 3 million net users during the quarter, the company stated.
Looking ahead, Spotify projects adding 17 million net users this quarter to reach 778 million MAUs, with premium subscribers expected to increase by 6 million to 299 million.
Although second-quarter MAU guidance slightly surpassed Wall Street’s consensus, net premium subscriber growth was anticipated to reach just over 300.4 million, according to FactSet analyst polls.
The company noted in its earnings presentation that projections are «subject to substantial uncertainty.»
Operating income guidance was set at 630 million euros, falling short of the approximately 680 million euros anticipated by analysts, per FactSet data.
Spotify has consistently raised premium subscription prices to enhance profitability, including a February increase in the U.S. from $11.99 to $12.99 monthly.
At Monday’s close, the stock had dropped 14% year-to-date.
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