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Customers at a Home Depot store in St. Louis, Missouri. "We don't see broad-based price increases for our customers at all going forward," says Billy Bastek, executive vice president of merchandising. © Reuters

KOSUKE TAKAMI

WASHINGTON -- Lower-than-expected U.S. inflation readings for May suggest that President Donald Trump's tariffs have yet to really hit American consumers, with domestic and foreign companies initially bearing the costs.

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