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However domestic producers would also raise prices because they have easy excuse to do so

They can’t raise them above the tariffs or they will make the Chinese bads (can’t call the “goods” because they’re so shoddy) to be cheaper again and defeat the purpose. Prices go up when demand goes up anyway, even if we all decided to buy domestic without a tariff. Once supply catches up to demand the prices will adjust accordingly. Or the trade war could end by both parties agreeing to real free trade rather than the current “free” trade where we get charged tariffs for our goods and can’t charge others for theirs. Already companies based overseas are investing in factories here to avoid tariffs: factories that will give Americans jobs that pay better.

Actually that is the (historical) tendency, for domestic companies to raise prices to match foreign goods with tariffs added. Just go to the store, do you really think that milk and apples still cost so much because they're stuck in some cargo ship in the middle of the Pacific 5 years later? Corporations are in the business of making money, not giving people bargains while they still go by Toyotas because they're still better quality than the gloriously low quality products we make.

Not to mention that he didn't just products made here, whatever few there are actually made here still have parts made abroad. And switching to making them here isn't exactly an overnight process.

The use of dairy as an example is one of the dumbest I’ve ever heard. The cost of groceries is largely dependent on the price of diesel fuel for use in farm machinery and truckers. As for milk prices they will reduce the prices when you come toward the sell-by date or the stores have to throw them out. If people don’t buy it they reduce it because demand goes lower.

Supply and demand. People will cut dairy out of their diets and prices will drop and eventuality equalize somewhere between what people are willing to pay and what companies want to make of them.

Nah I don't think people are just dropping milk or cheese like that.

That's not gonna happen especially on things like food that we need to survive.

My house already has. We haven't had milk for weeks.

Think of your phones and computers and trucks and cars. The stuff that says "made in China" is a US import meaning WEEEEEE pay the tariff if you buy those goods.

Is there any reason we can’t develop such things as are imported from China domestically?

The stuff we buy comes form other countries or parts of those things do. So even if we by domestic you'll still be paying more.

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