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philipallstar • yesterday at 10:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Feelings aside, I was just asking a question because I didn't understand the link.


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Borealid • yesterday at 10:18 PM

Countries other than the US have, for reasons that you may choose to find mysterious, imposed tariffs on products exported from the US.

Tariffs raise the consumer-visible price of those goods. This then, due to demand elasticity, causes consumers in those non-US countries to buy fewer of those products.

Some impact may be badwill as well but quite a bit is first-order impact of second-order tariffs.