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Gresser in CNN: ‘Pink tariffs’ cost women more than $2 billion a year

  • April 16, 2025
  • Ed Gresser

“Most manufactured apparel and footwear are classified by gender in the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), which sets out the tariff rates for all categories of merchandise imported into the United States. Tariff rates on women’s clothing were, on average, 16.7% in 2022 — 2.9 percentage points higher than the 13.6% average tariff rate for men’s clothing, according to Gresser.”

Read more in CNN.

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