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It’s good business and the right thing to do.

$100 x .95 =$95

$100 x .10 =$10.00 (refund to cust)

(Assumes 10% price increase)

$95 - $10 =$85.00

Customer knows you care about them and value their business and want to be honest and upfront and you’re still recovering 85% percent of your costs.

But we did - DID - have to raise our prices.

And since we are wholesale and price increases were explicitly tied to tariffs, we’re going to have to refund our customers back the % increase back to dollar 1.

So, I get a little itchy on the give money to consumers first.

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$600 billion in refunds to consumers on ~$270 billion in tariffs is wild.

That $270 billion needs to go to the companies that paid.

Our current tariffs are 95-95.8% per container.

30k in goods = ~28-29k in tariffs.

We didn’t raise our prices by 95-98.5% because customers would revolt.

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In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."

Yes, really.

Also, if the tariffs are rolled back, companies like mine and others will be able to request duty drawbacks.

For us? Might be anywhere from 500k to 1 million.

For the big boys? it’s gonna be billions.

If someone put a sign on the side of an industrial trash compactor reading "Portal Back to 2015 in the Canon Timeline", I'm jumping in. I'm taking that risk.