[Photato]

Why on earth would you think Germany gets to collect a tariff that the US imposes on imported goods. It makes zero sense. The US collects the tariff. It's effectively an extra tax citizens pay for imported goods. It hurts the people and it hurts the companies producing the goods.

[andrepd]

Guess it's not just "hillbillies" and rubes who don't know how tariffs work, it's also "very educated" people in hackernews telling us about "simple simple stuff"!

[Aeolun]

Enlighten us, oh wonderful wizard. Why does Germany get taxes the US imposes?

The whole point is that people buy shit from the US by making the German stuff more expensive.