Here’s how latest round of US-China tariffs could be felt

BALTIMORE — By imposing taxes on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, President Donald Trump has intensified a battle of wills between the world’s two largest economies — and the outcome is far from certain.

No one knows how long the tariffs announced Monday might last. No one knows if Beijing will yield as pressure builds or instead stiffen its resolve and keep retaliating. No one knows if a politically divided United States will serve to undercut Trump’s aggressive tactics.

But what’s clear is that the latest fight in the escalating trade war is likely, one way or another, to affect consumers, companies, markets, the economy and the political landscape.

Here is a look at three potential consequences: The latest round of tariffs on goods such as car parts could result in higher prices for American consumers because most companies are expected to pass on the cost to their customers.

reaches a truce with Beijing, Trump’s import tax will jump to 25 percent in 2019. What’s more, if Beijing retaliates, Trump says he’s ready to impose tariffs on an additional $267 billion in Chinese goods.

The result could be higher prices for American consumers, because most companies are expected to pass on the cost to their customers.

The tariffs could put a dent in consumer spending, though many economists think the impact on the overall economy will be minimal.

tariffs, which were low and mostly headed lower before Trump took office. They now need to rethink the supply chains they’ve built across countries and calculate where best to deploy workers.

“They’re definitely going to move jobs,” Murphy said. “What Trump is doing is increasing the cost, and he’s introducing uncertainty into trade relations. Businesses can deal with costs. It’s the uncertainty they can’t deal with.”

A Franklin County woman is at the heart of an ACLU complaint accusing Facebook of discrimination, with the civil-rights group saying the social-media giant violated federal and state laws prohibiting businesses from excluding women from job ads.

Linda Bradley — whom documents describe as a Franklin County resident laid off from a call-center job — is one of three women named in a complaint against Facebook filed Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The ACLU also lists 10 employers that it claims have placed discriminatory ads.

The civil-rights group says changes that Facebook made to its ads systems this year to prevent discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion and other characteristics didn’t extend to gender.

Facebook said there is “no place for discrimination” on its platform and that it will defend its practices once it can review the complaint.

The complaint by the ACLU and the Communications Workers of America labor union says Facebook allows for job ads that target potential applicants based on gender. This includes women as well as people who do not identify as either men or women, or “non-binary” people.

The complaint alleges the three women were not shown ads for jobs in traditionally maledominated fields, even though they appeared qualified for those positions. The ads, which the ACLU says appeared over the course of several months in 2017 and 2018, were for jobs such as