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Those are exactly the groups that are meant to pay for the tariffs.

A factor in this that is not mentioned is that companies selling goods to the US may have made an effort to lower prices, altering production to lessen tariffs or in other way tried to offset the extra amount US consumers have to pay.

An estimate of that would be quite interesting.



> may have made an effort to lower prices,

Isn't that the 10% in the article? That's the mechanism by which "China pays the tariffs".


Many carriers recoup the tariff from the shipper if recipient doesn't pay, rendering DAP Incoterm meaningless.

So this 10% might also simply represent de facto theft from foreign business.


X "pays" the tariff by losing US business.


Prices go down when overall demand is lower, but it also goes down for the rest of the world.




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