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ProfessorGAC

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6. That's The Theory, For Sure

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 06:29 PM

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In practice, it's harder to envision the supplier absorbing the costs as lost margins long term.
Practice suggest gradual increases in price to return margins to expected levels to keep equity owners happy.
It's a tactical move to limit blowback from angry consumers seeing 10, 15, 20% increases all at once.

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U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Monday OP

55%? 100% here SheltieLover Monday #1

Agree! BlueWavePsych Tuesday #16

Yup. Put it on the backs of taxpayers, as always. SheltieLover Tuesday #21

How about this 4% increase bullshit. Klarkashton Monday #2

Tariff taxes had NOTHING to do with coffee prices until a few weeks ago. Bernardo de La Paz Monday #10

Coffee is cheaper in Canada. BlueWavePsych Tuesday #17

Do you say that after accounting for the currency or just compare CAD $ USD $? Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #18

Too lazy to calculate it yourself. nt BlueWavePsych Tuesday #20

No. But I want to know if I should spend the time only to find a basic error has been made. Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #22

The CPI measure got distorted awhile ago IbogaProject Tuesday #11

HWBush popsdenver Tuesday #14

U.S. coffee drinkers and businesses will pay the price for Trump's Brazil tariffs BlueWavePsych Tuesday #19

I only buy coffee from Colombia, because that's my preference FakeNoose Tuesday #28

I seem to remember from Econ 101 that tariffs tend to be split between buyer and seller depending on demand Blues Heron Monday #3

That's about right from what I recall as well, though it gets more complicated unblock Monday #4

That's The Theory, For Sure ProfessorGAC Monday #6

For US tariffs, the buyer/importer is the entity that pays the tariffs LetMyPeopleVote Monday #8

In reality, no. You want your stuff out of customs? paleotn Tuesday #26

Many outlets have made strong profits after Covid cachukis Monday #5

Yeah, producers and sellers can't carry all of the tariffs indefinitely... Wounded Bear Monday #7

80 percent. I've read on DU or heard on CNBC highly credible reports that it is 80 percent. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #9

That's why it's a tax meant to push more of the burden of paying for the tax cuts the wealthy were given by the GOP. cstanleytech Tuesday #12

Goldman Sachs exposes trump's huge lie that foreign countries are paying his tariffs and not US consumers . LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #13

So the Republicans deliberately lied to America Champp Tuesday #15

Goldman Sachs report says 88% of American companies and consumers are paying Trump's tariffs LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #23

Along this line... llmart Tuesday #24

Much of that is due to climate change and crop disease impacting cocoa growers in west Africa. paleotn Tuesday #27

Can't be true. The Thing said Mexico was paying for it and, as proof, I got a 1 peso check Wonder Why Tuesday #25