>>512453212 (OP)>to pay tarriffsbut its the americans who pay them, the way this economic measure works is it superimposes an additional cost on a imported product thus making it more expensive for the buyer incentivizing him to buy the local product that doesn't have this additional fee, artificially handicapping the foreign competition.
Let me explain it with burgers - there are chinese burger and there are american both cost ten dollars. Now comes the government and says - 'twenty percent tariff on the chinese burger". Now american burger costs ten dollars but chinese twelve, whoever buys the chinese burger will be the one paying this tariff, and it will go to the government, it doesn't cost to china anything except now that the buyers will be less inclined to buy chinese burgers due to higher cost. Basically its a twenty percent tax americans will have to pay if they want to buy chinese stuff, it doesn't cost the government anything, it doesn't cost the company anything, it only costs the goy something which is why the government is so happy to put these tariffs on everything if the goy doesn't complain too much.