00:00That's going to impact global trade significantly. It's going to impact the cost of goods and services.
00:06We are here at courts where they have published for Tobago sort of commercial kitchen items.
00:15Most of these items will attract some tariff on it. So the cost of goods will go up.
00:21Mr. Agustin explained further the extent of the tariffs on Tobago.
00:25The cost to produce goods will go up. The cost of raw material will go up.
00:31In our society, we tend to essentially consume goods from the United States and the First World.
00:40So we can expect increasing prices in our stores.
00:44Mr. Agustin said this may be a good time for Tobagoans to eat local.
00:49It should perhaps behoove us to produce locally, to buy local, to eat local, to farm more,
00:57to eat the foods that we grew up on, to perhaps choose cassava over wheat,
01:02to perhaps go by the local fishermen and those wearing the chickens as opposed to the imported goods
01:09because that will make a difference in terms of how we are able to feed our families.
01:15Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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