WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Prices on almost everything you buy made outside of the U.S. may go up soon. The White House announced new tariffs that are now in effect.

President Donald Trump says these tariffs are necessary to bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. He celebrated an announcement from Apple that they'll invest $600 billion in the U.S.

The tariffs went into effect on Thursday at midnight and the Yale Budget Lab estimates it'll cost the average American family about $2,400 more a year. They estimate, in the short term, those tariffs will affect things like leather shoes, bags, clothes and in the long-term car prices could grow about $4500 on average.

One economist says right now, what you buy is at pre-tariff prices.

“A lot of the washing machines on store shelves right now w

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