An American's view on increased import tariffs

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一个美国人对进口关税增加的看法

1， A significant increase in inflation in the US. You see, tariffs are a tax on imports that the buyer (the US citizen) pays.

美国会陷入通货膨胀，关税是由买家支付。（意思即为因为采购成本上升导致美元的购买力下降，导致通货膨胀）

2， A huge gut punch to US farmers. China imports pork and soy and other agricultural products from the US. Trump ended up sending $20-$30 billion a year to farmers to compensate for their lost sales.

美国农场主受到巨大冲击，因为中国常年从美国进口农产品，因为单方面的关税的增加，导致中国停止从美国进口农产品，每年补偿给farmer的美金是200-300亿美金。

3，We couldn’t institute tariffs on China’s “entire export economy”—they have hundreds of billions that go to Europe and Africa.

我们无法阻止通过关税阻止中国的出口经济，因为他们仍然有数千亿美金（商品）出口到欧洲和非洲。

4，They’d easily get around it (like they did during the Trump era). Make a TV and ship it to Vietnam where they put a seal on it “Made in Vietnam” and in a box of a Vietnamese company.

转口贸易（通过越南转口，贴上越南制造标签）

5，You’d destroy the US tech industry (or at least mobile phones and computers and laptops). The vast majority of them are made in China. You’re probably gullible enough to think that means Americans would start up a new industry making phones or making computers. Nah—that’s not how that works.