Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Maybe....maybe not Date:   6/11/2019 10:37:24 AM

I think that's true for individual products but when you have tariffs on raw materials like steel they don't equate to a 25% increase in the cost of the product they are used to manufacture and those cost probably do get passed along.  But like I said, while I'm not usually in favor of tariffs (i.e., when they are just used to protect an inefficient industry), we have to do something about China and this is at least a form of leverage.  What doesn't help is that dictators like Xi can just outlast the current President and hope a Democrat will be elected so it's back to normal with China screwing us, stealing our technology and using the money we pay for their crap products to arm themselves.  At least Trump recognizes the real threat.