[kebokyo]

I can’t read the actual article because I can’t find a way past the paywall… but I am fairly certain this is a political play.

If consumers see two products, one from China and another from Vietnam, both with their tariff markups listed, I have a feeling they’d pick the Vietnam product more often due to the lower markup. This makes Trump happy because he clearly wants us to stop buying Chinese products.

[kebokyo]

Never mind I am a silly little goober who thinks a little too well

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...

[Terr_]

To recycle a similar sentiment from another submission [0] on the White House's response:

One of the Republicans' (conflicting) rationales for the import taxes was Americans would notice the higher prices and be motivated to seek out domestic alternatives.

If they were telling the truth, they should be happy to see these factors clearly displayed, since that makes it easy for consumers to compare and switch to other products that aren't being tariffed.

Instead, they're freaking out, indicating they want to deceive consumers and voters into blaming higher prices on "greedy companies", instead of (correctly) blaming the federal government which is taking the money for unprecedented new "national emergency" taxes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831027