This is the one lie that I can’t believe media doesn’t constantly correct. I think to this day, because of his repeated lies, people think foreign countries pay tariffs. 

I have worked for companies that imported goods and had several start-ups. Import tariffs are dictated by US Customs and as a small business I PAY the tariffs. Foreign company didn’t care what my tariff was. They charge the same. I had to factor in tariff’s and shipping to get my landed cost and then add my needed margin on top of that.

US businesses pay tariffs. It absolutely gets passed on to consumers.

Now, if Trump was playing 3D Chess and thinking about the long term shift towards more domestic manufacturing over decades by raising tariffs, that is a different argument. But no, he is saying that tariffs are paid by the foreign company. Just flat out wrong.