# Professor Lawrence White discusses how tariffs on appliances are impacting the laundry business

Faculty News

— August 31, 2018

![TRT World logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/trtworld192x144.jpg?itok=qt81eJD0)

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Excerpt from [TRT World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bIj3-HGVc) -- "The imported steel, the imported aluminum that is setting the price, and if a tariff means that price goes up, then the domestic price is going to go up."'

[Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bIj3-HGVc)