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by Suppafly 410 days ago
> There's also the problem in less direct sales where businesses in the chain expect a certain margin. Simply passing on the tariffs quickly leads to large price increases to the customers.

This is what a lot of people aren't understanding. If the tariff is added by the first middleman, each additional middleman between that first one and the customer is adding their increase to that existing increase and the base price, not just the original base price.