Most Americans are bracing for higher prices on a wide range of consumer goods following President Donald Trump's move to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from most of the world, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The three-day poll, which concluded on Sunday, found that 73% of respondents said they thought prices in the next six months would increase for the items they buy every day after the new taxes on almost all imports took effect.
Just 4% of respondents thought prices would fall and the rest expected no change or did not answer the question.
Some 57% of poll respondents - including one quarter of respondents from Trump's Republican Party - said they opposed the new tariffs, which include levies of at least 10% on imports from almost every country.
Some 39% of respondents supported the new tariffs, and 52% said they agreed with the Trump administration's argument that other countries have been taking advantage of the U.S. when it comes to international trade.
Trump frequently cites that view as a reason to enact new trade barriers, saying they will lead to a boom in U.S. manufacturing. Forty-four percent of respondents said they disagreed with that view.
Americans have mostly split along partisan lines on whether higher tariffs are a good idea. Half of respondents - including almost all Republicans - said they agreed with a statement that "any short-term economic pain is worth it to make the U.S. stronger in the long term." The other half - including almost all Democrats - disagreed.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted online and nationwide, surveyed 1,027 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.
