• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    24 days ago

    Oh no not tariffs, we won’t be able to afford… wait, hang on, we don’t pay them do we? Carry on.

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      24 days ago

      Right, except the tariff gets baked into the price your importer pays to bring the product into the US. So while you don’t cut a check to the US Treasury, your buyer does, and that either makes your product less competitive or forces you to eat the cost in your margins. But yeah, “carry on”.

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        24 days ago

        Except if the product was available commercially in the United States they wouldn’t have been importing it in the first place, and they’re not going to step up factories in, how long has he been in power, 6 months, it only feels like forever.

        If tariffs worked a senior president would have implemented the more subtly.