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Or, they just pay the tariff themselves. Could you imagine China going, "Cool bro, we'll just absorb the cost ourselves. Now what?"
What would happen is the US dollar would be weaker, profits selling to the US weakened. It would still harm us primarily.
I mean, that's what trump said they would do. That would make him look like a genius.
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That wouldn't really do much for China. The reason the tariffs hurt us is that we sent all our manufacturing to them (along with a few other countries). So the tariffs only make our stuff cost more. Footing the bill like that would just weaken China's position.