The Data Point
On 24 July 2026, the United States imposed Section 301 tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on 60 trading partners that together account for 99.4% of US imports. Trinidad and Tobago was placed at 10%. The Bahamas, Guyana, and the Dominican Republic were placed at 12.5%. And according to the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, more than 85% of T&T’s exports to the US, its energy and petrochemical lines, were exempted at zero.The headline number is not the story. The gap between 10% and 12.5%, and the exemptions sitting beneath both, is where your actual cost lives.
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