The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.
The only thing that is going to accomplish is increasing profit margins for the people importing the goods, because they’re absolutely still going to hike their prices by the same percentage that the tariffs are set at.
So consumers will be paying more but corporations will be reaping the benefits of the 25% increase in profit margins without paying extra because they’re skirting the tariffs while telling everyone that they have to pay it.
The only thing that is going to accomplish is increasing profit margins for the people importing the goods, because they’re absolutely still going to hike their prices by the same percentage that the tariffs are set at.
So consumers will be paying more but corporations will be reaping the benefits of the 25% increase in profit margins without paying extra because they’re skirting the tariffs while telling everyone that they have to pay it.