President Donald Trump listens to journalists’ questions while gathering with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Oval Office of the White House on April 17, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump will meet on Monday afternoon with executives of some of the largest retailers of the nations, since their aggressive and unpredictable tariffs threaten to fly their commercial models with important weights.
Trump is ready to receive the best officers of Walmart” Aim” Home Deposit and Lowe’s In the White House to discuss the impact of its commercial policies, said an administration official to CNBC.
The White House did not list the meeting during the president’s public hours on Monday, and it was not clear immediately in which executives of each company they ate.
Bloomberg first reported the first time scheduled meeting.
Walmart rejected the request for comments from CNBC, while Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s did not respond immediately.
For retailers, rates are the last threat to an already challenging economic panorama, where consumers look for low prices after high inflation years.
However, tariffs weigh in some retailers more than others. As the largest nations shopkeeper, Walmart is in a better position than many of its competitors.
Around two thirds of what Walmart sells in the United States is done, cultivated or meets in the United States, said financial director John David Rainey in this at an investor event in Dallas.
Walmart imports the last third of the whole world, he said, but China and Mexico are the “most important” supplier countries.
Target, on the other hand, is in a harder place. Minorist with headquarters in Minneapolis is quite known for discretionary merchandise as economic and elegant clothing and home products, products that are generally manufactured abroad.
Target’s annual income has stagnated approximately during the last four years, and the company recently projected sales growth only of 1% for the current fiscal year.
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