Electricity is the obvious one ... plus electronics from Asia ...
But a bigger one is fertilizer ... maybe not directly applicable to you if you're not a farmer, but it raises the cost of growing all foods (including feed grain for chicken, pork, beef)
First off, my state produces twice the electricity we need and sells the surplus to other states and even Canada. We have some of the cheapest power in the country.
Natural gas can be used to make fertilizer, and we produce 3.58 Billion cubic feet of Natural Gas a day, here. Again, not a problem.
We export a billion dollars a year in soybeans, we're the top US exporter of wheat (especially Spring Wheat and Durum), and lead the nation in the production of several oilseeds, including canola, sunflowers, and flaxseed. Soybeans come in eighth in the US.
Corn and Soybean meal are major exports, too, and dried legumes (peas, lentils, an chickpeas) are significant exports as well.
We lead the US in honey production.
We also produce 13.8 million barrels of oil per day (30-35 gravity API sweet crude).
We have 2 million head of beef cattle, up from 1.7 million head as of last January (2025) and more than twice our human population. 228 million pounds of milk produced annually, and there are about 150,000 pigs, 60,000 sheep, and about a million turkeys produced annually.
Now, we don't make our own electronics, but we have plenty of stuff to trade, if it came to that.
I must note, though, electronics that aren't cutting edge are relatively cheap.
We don't make cars, but we have over a million registered in the state (more than one per person), and we don't use road salt, so they last a long time.
My daily driver is 28, last of the 20th century Suburbans, but I have a 1 ton van that just turned 27, and an '87 Dodge pickup that just keeps going. Parts are not that expensive, and I can do most of the work they need myself.
I'm not buying a new one, don't need all those sensors, screens, and gee-gaws, I learned to back up with mirrors after checking behind the vehicle, and can check my own tire pressure. More points of failure, if you ask me. I learned to drive in snow and ice, so traction control and a host of other gadgets just are so many added problems.
So, I'm just not feeling all the pain everyone is hollering about.
Yes, some stuff is more expensive, but that is a result of the Biden Administration pumping out dollars we did not have. It takes $1.24 to buy what a dollar bought in 2020 at the store.
Beef costs are up because the herds are smaller thanks to Biden era policies in re: grazing on National Grasslands (BLM land) and water access, as well as fuel costs during the Biden Administration (also the result of policy).
That, too, is coming around. I bought 80% lean ground beef for under $5 a pound the other day, down from the $8.00 peak.
But tariffs? Not so much.
I think you will find most of the current pain is caused by Local and State taxes, regulations, and policies--beyond the devaluation of the US Dollar during the Biden years, and other lingering effects of Bidenomic policy, and not so much the result of tariffs.
