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Another familiar objection is framed as an accounting exercise: The effective tariff burden can be made lower than the headline rate if firms substitute products, re-source suppliers or alter configurations.
Faced with tariffs, they discount, reprice, accept lower returns or absorb the cost outright to keep factories running.
An occasional deficit can reflect temporary capital inflows or cyclical demand and need not be harmful.
By any economic or national-security standard, that outcome isn’t benign.
Yet even such a modest rate increase feels big when the nominal policy rate was zero or negative for 14 years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
