What Trump’s Tariffs Mean for Canned Soup

钢铁关税真相:就业没回来,物价飞了?

Big Take

2026-08-21

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On today’s Big Take podcast, economy reporter Shawn Donnan walks David Gura through what eight years of tariffs have meant for steel mills, can manufacturers, food growers and consumers. And as the second Trump administration continues to pursue tariffs – see this week’s 11th-hour negotiations with Canada over the US’s latest proposed duties – Donnan looks at how manufacturers have tried to adapt. Read more: What the American Tin Can Reveals About Trump’s Volatile Tariff Policy We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Hosted by David Gura; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by Shawn Donnan; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott. Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Emma Munger. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • This is a can of Campbell's soup.

  • I brought a prop.

  • Look at that.

  • What do you have with you?

  • A can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

  • Campbell's chicken noodle soup that I bought from 7-Eleven.

  • For a few months now, I've been obsessed with a little episode

  • that happened in March of 2018

  • when Wilbur Ross, the then Commerce Secretary,

  • went on TV and held up a can of that very same soup.

  • Well, I just bought this can today at a 7-Eleven down here,

  • and the price was $1.99.

  • This is as you've written, Shawn,

  • a mostly forgotten footnote of President Trump's first term.

  • You have Wilbur Ross on CNBC

  • the day after the President announced

  • what were some of his first tariffs—25% tariffs on foreign steel.

  • He was out there doing some damage control.

  • Yeah, so the markets were having conniptions about tariffs.