So the middle man paying taxes is your answer?
Surely an astute commentator such as oneself would then have to acknowledge that the tariffs are only paid if...an item with a tariff on it is purchased.
Tariffs are completely voluntary taxation.
Domestic manufactures raise, or keep prices up to the tariff level, so they are not voluntary as there is no way to avoid them.
Buy the import, pay the tariff. Buy the domestic, pay the price very very close to the tariff.
I thought that's where you were going, and your obfuscation was simply to disguise the fact that you are wrong. You pay higher taxes when a tariff is raised when the domestic producer raises his prices (with the government's blessing), and you pay higher taxes when a tariff is raised when you buy a domestic product that contains an imported component.
So go ahead, avoid buying cocoa butter (I do). Now try to avoid buying chocolate. Or come to FR and claim that you are not paying higher taxes when you buy that chocolate. LOL