For Local Cheese Sellers, New Trump Tariffs Are A Wedge Issue

The Trump administration is threatening to impose a 25% tariff on a variety of goods imported from the European Union, after the World Trade Organization determined that the E.U. was unfairly subsidizing its aircraft industry. Those goods include German knives, French wine and Scotch whisky — and cheese.
That’s bad news for Ihsan Gurdal, co-owner of Formaggio Kitchen, a specialty food shop in Cambridge. Inside the store, you can almost see the tariff list come to life: Shelves are stacked with European wines, bins brim with olives, and wheel upon wheel of cheese hails from Italy, the U.K., Switzerland and more.