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@mike_in_nc many of the recent price increases have been due to the changing trade policies and their impact on materials and shipping costs.

@mike_in_nc companies in countries that don't have direct tariffs imposed on them have still been hit with materials cost increases because of the global impact those trade changes have had.

For example, even if you made everything from US materials in a US factory your costs would have increased because changes in competition allowed US suppliers to increase their prices.

Another example is a product that sources materials from a country where global economics have resulted in price increases (possibly moving between multiple countries as the material is processed) before final assembly in a country and into a product that is not itself subject to tariffs.

I suspect the rebalancing of international shipping costs is actually more fair now, but has resulted in higher costs for US consumers because it was unfairly beneficial for US imports instead of exports before.

@mike_in_nc I wasn't trying to say that trade/economics is the only thing that factors into, or that has resulted in changes to, price choices or policies. I was only saying that many of the recent ones have been influenced by changes in trade/economics.

My followup post was intended to illustrate how those changes in trade/economics are wider and more influential that some might think.