谁为关税买单？
以下信息来源，美国某个企业主。
Now the very first thing I want to put out there is who pays tarriffs.
Trump has been saying for years now that it is foreign countries who pay for tariffs.
That is not true at all.
When I import goods from China, the second it reaches the port. It is held until I personally pay the tarriff.
Now for people who understand who pays the tarriffs but are still pro-tarriff, they say when you import the goods there’s going to be this tarriff.
It’s going to raise the price of the goods, therefore, American companies are gonna be able to compete, and at a certain point, it will actually be cheaper to have your
goods manufacured in the United states versus China. And they’re going to bring manufacuring back to America.
If I could have it made in the United States, I would be happy to pay a premium to actually go and see it and touch it, and make sure that it’s right before I order tens of thousands of units.
Now you might be saying “ Aha Lee, If we add a high enough tarriff, then the prices would be the same, and then you would choose US manufacuring.”
The issue is the prices aren’t even close to the same.
I’ll give you some very specific examples here: For my big bottle of hot sauce, I had a prototype made in China. And then I went to a factory in the United States that specializes in this sort of thing. And I said how much would it cost to make this exact box. It was 800 percent more.
Another part of this that I have tried so hard to get manufacured in the United States is the label.
But the prices that I was being quoted by printers in the US are outrageous. They want $7000 to build the plates, and then they want $2 per label.
In China, there’s no setup free at all. The cheaper labels are 5 cents a label. And the ultra high quality label that I wanted, 25 cents.
So you can probably see why a fifty percent or even a two or three hundereds percent tarriff would still not make me or almost any other business move to American manufacturing for these sort of products. Because it still doesn’t make sense financially.
谁在为关税买单？不是中国，是我。
很多人还在说“关税是让外国政府来为我们买单的”。
但我作为一个亲自进口产品的创业者，告诉你真相：
当我从中国进口一批货，货物一到港口，海关会直接拦下。
只有我付了那笔关税，货才能放行。
这笔钱，不是中国政府掏的，不是供应商掏的，是我自己掏的。
有些人会说：
“关税让外国货更贵，美国公司就能更有竞争力了，制造业会回流。”
听起来像是个解决办法，对吧？
但现实是，美国制造的成本，根本没法跟中国比。
举几个真实的例子：
🔥 我的大瓶辣酱包装盒
- 在中国做：价格合理
- 在美国找专业工厂做：价格高出800%
📦 标签印刷
- 中国：没开版费，普通标签5分钱一个，超高品质也就25分钱
- 美国：开版费$7,000，每个标签还要$2
你可以想象一下，就算我加上100%、200%、甚至300%的关税，也完全不够抵消这个成本差。
那关税到底在打击谁？
- 是像我这样的小企业主，前期成本暴增
- 是普通消费者，最后买单
- 是我们这些正在努力做品牌、搞实业的人，而不是“他们”
所以，谁在为关税买单？
不是外国。
是你、我、我们。
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如果真的能在美国制造，我巴不得——
可以当面看样、现场把控品质，出问题也能直接沟通。
但在现实中，它就是不划算，做不下去。
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希望这个分享，能让更多人了解“关税”的真相，尤其是那些真的在一线做实业、搞产品的人。