Businesses are already trying to pass tariff costs onto customers, Fed report says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " Broadly speaking, the report -- which comes out about every seven weeks -- characterized economic growth as "little changed" from the March 5 report, though it noted that "uncertainty around international trade policy was pervasive across" the Fed's 12 districts.
48% : As Trump ordered against-the-board levies on U.S. imports and higher duties on Chinese products, the Fed's "Beige Book" indicated how they plan to proceed.
37% : Elsewhere in the report, service organizations dependent on government support noted difficulties since the White House began culling through agencies that get federal aid.

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