### Comment:
Understand this, and my view is obviously against tariffs, however I don’t understand why importers paying tariffs is “shocking news”. It’s literally a mandatory step in this process, whether there is domestic producer substitution or not.

### REPLY:
Basic functions of government and business that everyday people don't deal with are 'shocking' to them because they've been constantly lied to or given bad explanations of those functions.

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