A tariff at point of entry is paid by the person importing the goods, not by the person in the country they were exported from.
It seems like half the tariff advocates on FR don't understand this simple point. Tariffs are paid by US business owners. Raising them negatively impacts US business owners and their US employees, not foreign governments.
Just as we the taxpayers (actually our posterity who will inherit our national debt) end up paying the costs to support the workers displaced when entire industries wiped are out.
We are capitalizing our profits while socializing our losses on a national scale. No such thing as a free lunch or free trade.
Tarrifs on Chinese goods will go to offset the fact that the Chinese manipulate their currency to help subsidize a lot of their imports. It creates an unfair advantage which needs to be stopped.
An importer can choose to “eat” the tariff.