'We're gonna be affected big': Trump tariffs alarm D.C. residents

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Washingtonians on Wednesday (March 2) said they were alarmed by the news that President Donald Trump would impose a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the U.S. and higher duties on dozens of other countries. - REUTERS

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00:00It'll be affected big, you see it in the market, you see the groceries are going up, the farmers

00:11are catching it.

00:12You know, he's trying to flip the whole system around.

00:16Yeah, I mean, avocados from Mexico is definitely a big one that I think about.

00:23I know some of our citrus too, are grown internationally as well.

00:29Those are two of the big ones that I can think of off the top of my head, but you know, still

00:33know that that's going to have an impact on grocery budgets.

00:39You know, it's still really concerning.

00:41I'm not really feeling it at the moment, but when they do, if they do, right, it's going

00:51to be concerning.

00:52Things are already rising, there's already inflation and all that kind of stuff, so I

00:55don't really want there to be other price hikes.

01:02It already kind of sucks with the amount of income that I make to have to deal with that.

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