re: Study finds that foreign firms paid 4% of tariff burden in 2025, while Americans ate 96%

What I do not understand - the study claims almost $4 trillion in goods was looked at. $200 billion in tariffs on that $4 trillion. That is 5%. If we are talking about 20%+ tariffs on goods then then the numbers so not make sense to me. 5% seems very low given that the article references 50% tariffs on Brazil and India goods. We know the tariffs are much more than 5% on Chinese, EU, etc.

To put it another way - the effective tariff rate on all goods imported to the U.S. is right around 11% So what happened to the other $200 billion+? 11% of $4trillion should be over $400 billion, but his study is only saying $200 billion was collected.
Or is this study combining the tariff regime of the last year of Biden with the first year of Trump2? If so, then what is the increase? Because there is no way the last year of Biden collected zero tariffs.

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The study in question is examining if tariffs are paid for by American importers/consumers or if foreign countries are eating it for us as political rhetoric as suggested.

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The study showed that for every 10% tariff increase, exporters reduced their price by approximately 0.39%, which is mostly negligible.

I think there has been a lot of hope, by some, that tariffs were magic money; revenue that simply appeared with little to no economic consequence.

Whatever the economic result may or may not be, tariffs are tax, and that tax is paid by either an American company or an American consumer and it is deposited in the US Treasury just as any other tax is. So, in effect, whatever revenues tariffs generated could be better utilized by the private sector.

Or they can simply keep on funding other government boondoggles like the Somolian Daycare Centers

Aluminum and steel costs from fabricators have increased.

Some of this has been because they can, however. As even our American manufacturers raised prices because the foreign companies were. It just reset the market floor.

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Playstation, Nintendo and Xbox all raised console prices to offset tariffs.

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MY GOD! How will we ever survive without those!!!!!

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Coffee

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Folgers at Walmart is $38 for 40.3 oz. Roughly 300 cups.

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Pretty much everything in my line of work.

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Surely you can be more specific than that.

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Folgers at Walmart is $38 for 40.3 oz. Roughly 300 cups.

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And it was cheaper until tariffs hit.

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The company, which owns brands such as Folgers and Café Bustelo, has raised coffee prices twice this year to recoup some of its own higher costs. Smucker said Wednesday it is likely to do so again this winter, as the Trump administration’s tariffs deliver a bigger hit.

Chief Executive Mark Smucker said the company’s brands remain affordable relative to coffee shop purchases. “We expect the coffee category to remain resilient, despite recent inflationary pressures, given consumers’ love of daily coffee rituals,” he said

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Coffee prices on the shelf lag coffee bean prices by quite a bit. Most of the current increases in coffee prices on the shelf are due to a huge shortage in coffee beans in the rolling 12 month leading up to March 2025. Did your article not tell you that?

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Shall I go on?

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Indeed.

I've yet to see any increase (that can be attributed to tariffs) in the prices of the products I purchase.

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And it was cheaper until tariffs hit.

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How much cheaper and how much do you purchase a year? I might purchase a container every other month. I paid $2.31 a gallon for gasoline this morning and I purchase 15-16 gallons a week just for my commute to work.