Its because the tariff is paid by the importer. Whether they are an American company, a Chinese owned company, or an individual citizen, it makes no difference. The importer pays the tariff.
You are fixated on when the product is going to be...
Every Chinese company is paying the applicable tariff.....the right question is are they increasing the price to the US consumer or choosing to eat that amount or a part of it?
If I was buying a drone now from DJI, I would compare the price...
It's very simple.
The importer has to pay to get the goods across the border.
And then they pass their additional costs on to their customer.
Whether they choose to soften the blow by wearing a portion of those costs, is a trivial matter, since...
This is not how tariffs work. Tariffs are collected at IMPORT, not at export. I recently bought a M3T from DroneNerds, one of the largest DJI dealers in the US. When the tariffs increased, the next batch of M3Ts that Drone Nerds listed (which...