{"id":38939,"date":"2025-04-16T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/tariffs-more-likely-to-bring-uk-price-cuts-than-inflation-says-wh-smith-boss\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:49:47","slug":"tariffs-more-likely-to-bring-uk-price-cuts-than-inflation-says-wh-smith-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/tariffs-more-likely-to-bring-uk-price-cuts-than-inflation-says-wh-smith-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs more likely to bring UK price cuts than inflation, says WH Smith boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Cowling says there is \u2018no logic\u2019 in why there would be inflation as east Asian suppliers seek alternatives to the US<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war is more likely to lead to price cuts than inflation for many retailers in the UK, according to the boss of WH Smith, as east Asian suppliers seek alternatives to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Many economists including those at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/17\/donald-trump-trade-wars-global-growth-inflation-oecd-uk-tariffs\">the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)<\/a> have suggested that increased barriers to trade could fuel inflationary pressures across the globe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/16\/tariffs-mean-price-cuts-rather-than-inflation-for-uk-retail-wh-smith-boss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Cowling says there is \u2018no logic\u2019 in why there would be inflation as east Asian suppliers seek alternatives to the US Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war is more likely to lead to price cuts than inflation for many retailers in the UK, according to the boss of WH Smith, as east Asian suppliers seek alternatives &#8230; <a title=\"Tariffs more likely to bring UK price cuts than inflation, says WH Smith boss\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/tariffs-more-likely-to-bring-uk-price-cuts-than-inflation-says-wh-smith-boss\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tariffs more likely to bring UK price cuts than inflation, says WH Smith boss\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}