[gruez]

>Zero businesses passed on the additional costs onto the consumer? None?

That wasn't the claim made. OP said:

>and businesses absorbed the vast majority of the blow through both stockpiling and taking the bullet.

Which so far as I can tell, is approximately correct, even if the "vast majority" part is suspect. A goldman sacs from last year estimated consumers will pay 55% of the tariffs by end of 2025. However that only includes the tariffs paid, whereas OP also included "stockpiling".

https://abcnews.com/Business/new-tariffs-effect-us-consumers...

[travisporter]

OP also says "This would be a valid concern if..." so, no need to defend these poor massive businesses who also screwed us with shrinkflation for five years.

[UncleOxidant]

Yeah, that was quite a claim. I didn't realize that businesses were were so altruistic?

[twoodfin]

Why those particular five years and not always?