If the tariff would have been called a Wage Equalization Surcharge", or an "Environmental Surcharge", it would have been a more accurate description.
That is goofy to just try to make up some new wording to trick people into thinking it is something else. "Surcharge" .... clever
a) Even Fox News is clear on this:
“But just to be clarifying, China isn’t paying these tariffs. You are. You know, indirectly and sometimes directly,” [Fox News’ Neil Cavuto] explained. “It’s passed along to you through American distributors and their counterparts in the United States that buy this stuff from the Chinese and then have to pay these surcharges. Not the Chinese government or China in particular.”
b) Tax payers paying big farm subsidies $12
B and $20
B due to tariff.
Rich farmers, not mom-and-pop farms, will collect most of Trump’s tariff bailout
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html
c) 12B and 20B
"The Trump administration could make as much as
$20 billion available to farmers in a second round of assistance designed to help offset losses from China's latest retaliatory tariffs, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said late Wednesday.
The second installment of trade aid is being modeled after the one last year. USDA pledged up to
$12 billion in assistance for 2018 production, mostly in the form of direct payments to farmers stung by retaliatory duties, as well as commodity purchases."