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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by simonh on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:33PM (#19283182)
That can only ork in the short term though. If they go bust prices will go up for consumers due to constrained supply. If they move abroad to avoid the tariffs, we’ll presumably the reason they didn’t already do that was higher manufacturing costs abroad, so again increased costs for consumers, even if less than the tariffs.

You can put it off for a while, but not indefinitely. After all the justification given for the tariffs was to make less efficient local production more viable. Higher consumer prices are an explicit part of that calculation.

Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by fountainofage on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:56PM (#19283501)
It could also mean the demand for these items is very elastic, so manufacturers will have to eat the tax or higher manufacturing costs.
Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by nybble41 on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:29PM (#19284416)
That assumes that manufacturers can reduce their margins without going out of business. That will not generally be true in a competitive market, however, since economic profit (which includes opportunity costs) tends toward zero.