The tariffs that President Donald Trump rolled back this past week will barely move the needle on consumer inflation, but his retreat potentially signals a major shift, according to a Wall Street analyst.

On Friday, Trump said he will scrap tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and a range of other commodities, even after insisting that his duties haven’t raised prices. That followed off-year elections that delivered stunning defeats to Republicans as voters protested the high cost of living.

Given that imported food makes up just 10% of what U.S. households consume, the tariff rollback’s impact on inflation is a “practically a rounding error,” wrote Bernard Yaros, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, in a note on Friday. But they will have outsized effects beyond the economic d

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