Riddle me this.......... Who pays the tariffs? Mr. Trump has said tariffs are a tax on other countries, but, overwhelmingly, American businesses importing the goods pay the tariffs to the Customs and Border Protection when goods enter the United States. Importers may pass some or all of the cost of the tariff to consumers through higher prices. So every deal made is just another blow to the consumer of the United States....every trade deal the markets cheer is just another dollar taken from the US consumer..... So basically every citizen of the US is the one actually paying these tariffs....how can this be sustainable? How can consumers who are suppisngly already living paycheck to paycheck and barely have emergency funds support these tariffs and the tens and tens of billions that are to be paid each month in what everyone throught would be actual billions coming in from the countries the US slapped tarrifs on.....how can markets be cheering every one of these trade deals????? There is something really questionable here that I guess no one is understanding... https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-pays-tariffs/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/economy/trump-tariffs-imports-costs.html https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-tariffs-who-pays Who pays the tariffs? Mr. Trump has said tariffs are a tax on other countries, but, overwhelmingly, American businesses importing the goods pay the tariffs to the Customs and Border Protection when goods enter the United States. Importers may pass some or all of the cost of the tariff to consumers through higher prices.
Son you need to get off the libtard crack. Businesses are paying it and only passing along part of it to consumers. It hasn't affected econ numbers too much... yet.
businesses have such high profit margins and are so altruistic that they will absorb this tax. However, if we raise business income taxes we will kill their incentive to invest and innovate.
IF every country exporting to the US is paying the same tariffs then either the exporters or the importers are paying tariffs. Next, the exporters may ask for higher price or importers may sell at higher price. In this case, consumers are paying for it. Trump is not imposing tariffs on a flat rate. Supply chain will realign based on the lower tariff rates. Countries with trade balance in favor of the US only have tariff rate of 10%. Some of these countries with 10% tariffs already say they will offset the 10% aka pay the tariff. So, it will have zero impact product cost. Trump tariffs list: See all the tariffs by country
My logic, if US imposes tariffs (it's another word called taxation) on say near all countries in the world, then these countries will avoid US and just trade tariff free amongst themselves. My simple thinking, USA is shooting itself in the foot, for example why buy an American car with tariff red tape when I can buy ex China, Japan, Europe with no hassles.
Americans spend to much buying shit to stuff in the garage for the whole shopping therapy. Maybe cutting down a bit and saving some money would be a good idea.
ok reporting this post for political trump derangement syndrome it's not news its @S2007S lashing out again his crazy bitch didn't get elected. @Baron
This will never happen. The US is the biggest consumerism country on Earth, and it isn't even close. Countries literally depend on the money we spend to stay afloat. Even the big economy countries depend on the US GDP and economic wealth of the American consumer.