One of Trump's main actions in the first 100 days is to levy new tariffs.

A recent report says tariffs could hard Kentucky more than other states because Kentucky is the most reliant on global trade.

Our due, Leffler explains more in this report.

A recent report poses this formula to gauge how much a state depends on the global market.

We are talking about the total value of goods a state exports to and imports from other countries compared to the the size of its economy, its gross domestic product, or the GDP that we call it.

The report comes from the National Association of Realtors.

When compared to its own GDP, Kentucky imports more goods than any other state.

Last year's top import was pharmaceuticals.

And Kentucky is third in the nation for exports, behind Louisiana and Texas.

We export a lot of goods, especially as a manufacturing state, but also an agricultural state.

For example, we export several billion dollars worth of, aerospace parts.

We export a lot in the automotive industry and a range of other manufacturing sectors, but we're also well known as an agricultural state.

Kentucky has had record breaking economic growth in recent years thanks to more manufacturing, especially in automotives.

But that's why Kentucky is vulnerable now.

Any state that makes a lot of things, you tend to import a lot of things because we import goods from all over the world, and then we do various things with them.

We make things.

The alternative to manufacturing or making things is services.

Thank tourism, finance and health care.

Less trade dependance States tend to be to have, like more diversified service based economies that have added like jobs faster or like more stable phase one profitable service industry in Kentucky is shipping, but that's clearly tied to international trade.

Shipping companies like U.P.S., whose M wall port facility, in Louisville, is one of the largest, automated package handling facilities in the world.

So, that infrastructure connects Kentucky to global markets around the clock.

The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce represents the largest business interests in the state.

The chamber opposes Trump's tariffs.

The number one thing we're hearing from businesses across Kentucky right now is the sheer uncertainty of this.

No one knows what's going to happen next.

There aren't particularly clear policy objectives that are at least known to businesses.

And so it's very, very difficult for them to react and plan around these things at the moment.

Kentucky's U.S. senators agree with the chamber both Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell have voted to undo tariffs on Canada, though Kentucky's Republican congressmen have a bit more faith in Trump's tariffs.

For Kentucky edition, I'm John Leffler.

Thank you much, June.

The white House says President Trump will sign an executive order today to relax some of its 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts.