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Experts say the ripple effects are being felt across the supply chain, even on businesses, like Mizuba, that were not bringing in shipments using the $800 exemption from tariffs, known as de minimis.

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Economists and other experts have long repeated the conventional wisdom that the stock market isn’t the economy, meaning that temporary pullbacks on Wall Street don’t always ripple as far as the average American’s pocketbook.

China’s tightened grip will have ripple effects for the auto industry, as these raw materials are crucial for producing computer chips, brakes, seats and other critical vehicle components, they add.

“If there was a complete lockdown and no rare earth exports, it would have a massive ripple—not just on the U.S. but also others.”

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And because U.S. households hold more equities than their international peers, any disappointment from AI-related productivity growth could have a bigger ripple effect through the U.S. economy.

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