From my understanding of how tariffs as a whole work, the government(s) of the country the imports come from do not pay the tariffs, the company actually importing the good does, and the vast majority of companies will simply hike the price of a product up so they make the same amount of money, and pass the tariff onto the customer. This is one year where I honestly completely checked out of policy, so I'm not sure what tax incentives or other incentives that Trump said he would implement so that companies won't just keep using the cheap foreign labor and raise the prices on American customers. What are those incentives, because I highly doubt that companies are going to all of a sudden pay Americans decent wages for the labor just because of the tariff.
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They will cause a recession, because you can't simply jack up tariffs to protect domestic manufacturing when you have no domestic manufacturing in the first place. EVERYTHING in our stores is produced overseas, including huge amounts of our food.
Slowly raising tariffs over time would work, as that would give markets time to renaturaluze the industries we shipped overseas. At that point, prices will better match wages, and our domestic production will be significantly higher quality.