Originally Posted by mstateglfr

You claimed tarrifs have nothing to do with the current shortage. 2 posters have now provided information to refute your claim. One cited an article and the other owns a bike shop so thats kinda sorta direct knowledge.

Whether consumers will pay the terrific or not has nothing to with if your comment was wrong, which it was. The tarrifs contributed to the current shortage because once in effect, production was reduced and imports were reduced.

Again, whether or not consumers will pay the increased price has no bearing on the accuracy of their comments.

Also, consumers having to pay more money due to the government hiking up taxes on the product(which is what this is) is mind-boggling.
With tarrifs, consumers are financially penalized in the end. Thats unfortunate.