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Tariffs first and foremost are a tax on corporate profit margins.
You must be smoking some good shit.
Corporations, if they can get away with it, will always pass the costs down to the consumer. If it costs $2 to import a $3 tomato from Mexico but now costs $2.50, they'll try to sell it for $3.75.
That's second order operation... They can try sure but profit margins will be squeezed which is the entire point of my original comment.
Prices will go up at the announcement of tarrifs, and wont come down when they're halted, in reasing profit margin. After what the other guy said. Tarrif expenses will always be passed down to the end user