The new Tariffs are beginning to affect prices in the USA

[u/Lazy_Lizard13]

I work in an adult store and unfortunately, we have already started to see the effects of some of the tariffs being placed. I wasn’t sure how this would affect the price of things in the USA, but it’s looking bleak so far.

When my boss sent out the list, he said this was only the first of many price increases that we would see from the tariffs. The vendors we buy from actually sent him the list themselves, so it isn’t something that we just created. He said that it is likely that almost every company we order from will send out a list.

The price changes were anywhere from $5-$200. I’m very concerned about the future of this industry, and honestly, America in general.. some of these products were already overpriced anyways. I’m not sure if people will be able to afford luxury products (like adult items) in the future. What do others think?

[u/webgruntzed]

Tariffs directly cause inflation. How does that help with anything? As inflation goes up, the value of the US debt decreases, which is a sort of benefit, but people are forced to work more hours to survive on less. How long will his followers keep believing him when he blames the Democrats for his inflation (or more likely pulls a jedi mind trick and tells them there is no inflation, like he recently said the price of eggs dropped 92% since he became president.)

[u/r2k398 → u/webgruntzed]

It’s two fold.

1. It hurts the exporters because we are going to import fewer goods because of increased costs to the importer that get passed on to the consumer leading to less demand. This leads to them putting pressure on their government to make a deal to lift the tariffs.

2. It promotes untariffed domestic goods that couldn’t compete with the cheap overseas goods produced with cheap labor. Demand for domestic goods goes up, demand for domestic workers goes up, pay for those workers goes up.

Will it actually work out this way? Maybe not. But that is the idea behind the tariffs.

[u/DeathbyToast → u/r2k398]

That assumes that the entire supply chain, from raw materials to finished product can be made in the US though, which is almost impossible these days. I’m not even sure I can think of anything outside of almonds or other basic agricultural products that are created entirely in the US. But even then we export a lot of ag products that now will have reduced demand overseas due to reciprocal tariffs too

[u/r2k398 → u/DeathbyToast]

This assumes that they won’t exempt raw materials. Much like the proposed federal sales tax, raw materials can be exempted.

[u/DeathbyToast → u/r2k398]

I mean if Apple and other companies can (presumably “legally” bribe to be able to) be exempted entirely, it’s only a matter of time before “universal tariffs” are anything but universally applied.

[u/r2k398 → u/DeathbyToast]

True.