Business Desk: Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Many Drones, and Trump Family-Tied Dronemakers Get a Boost
President Trump has imposed sweeping new tariffs on drones in an effort the White Housemaid said was intended to boost U.S. drone manufacturing and address concerns about the country's dependence on foreign suppliers, particularly China. Larger drones with certain sensitive capabilities are subject to a 100 percent tariff. Smaller drones and components deemed less sensitive will only face a 25 percent tariff. The move sent stocks of US drone makers soaring. Unusual Machines Inc., which is backed by Donald Trump Jr., jumped as much as 28%
Update: Aperture's Milestone Move
Aperture has always been a magazine first, a book publisher second, and only in recent decades a place with a bookstore and gallery space that people could walk into. During the pandemic lockdown, the doors to that space, in Chelsea, closed. Next month, those doors will reopen, at 380 Columbus Avenue, across from the American Museum of Natural History. The Upper West Side is an odd and interesting choice, if choice is even the word for a decision this momentous. Aperture has historically exis...

