It is possibly all the more reason to keep it up. I don’t want to be a target either, but these people need to know when they have entered hostile territory.

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Tariffs will drive the prices upward but consumers will still be compelled to make those purchases for a time, which is to say that they will just bite the cost because the alternative is less desirable. This demonstrates a lack of equilibrium between price and demand. In a non-elastic scenario, the rise in price would directly correlate to a decrease in demand.