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Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
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But this is the key piece of information MAGA fails to realize: if you make things more expensive for the manufacturer, the price goes up so they can remain profitable.
MAGAs love the idea of Trump using tariffs to "punish" the countries they don't like until they find out that those countries don't actually pay the tariffs. The consumer does.
Absolutely, but what I find particularly frustrating is their lack of understanding about how businesses always pass on operating costs. They must factor all these expenses into the price of goods, so even if they somehow managed to make foreign manufacturers pay the tariffs, the price of said products would still reflect their production costs.
The argument by even supposedly slightly saner folks like Besset was all companies would absorb the cost and therefore win win and to be fair many of them have.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/06/25/what-b2b-businesses-should-consider-before-absorbing-tariff-costs/
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/scott-bessent-is-underestimating-the-risk-of-a-us-treasury-selloff-by-desmond-lachman-2026-01
In this case the OP is just an idiot