The importer is the consumer...
replyI am just saying that it eventually is paid by the end user, regardless of the bureaucratic steps in between. We can try and figure out who is directly paying them but I feel like that detail is unnecessary to my overall point.
replyUS Consumers pay in fungible dollars, and so if your company paid for three pizzas eaten by an AWS team, and I paid for 1 ounce of Maersk fuel oil, and our Starbucks venti latte purchases paid to rethatch Juan Valdez's hut, who can even trace the serial numbers on our $1 bills?
replyA tariff is included in the cost of a product by the final seller. The final buyer ultimately pays the tariff.
replyIt doesn’t matter who sends the actual tariff payment, it gets priced into the cost of the product.
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reply> then I would expect to see a notation on the price tags and a line-item on my receipts,
replyTrump started threatening anyone who was going to do that, because he doesn't want his face attached to price hikes.