Trump’s Tricky Tariff ’Treat’ is Scary! If you’re worried about inflation and rising prices, can you afford to pay $2600 more per year for the things you buy every day because of Donald Trump’s increased tariffs? While Trump says exporting countries pay the tariff, he’s wrong. Tariffs are paid by the importing US business to the US government. That increases costs for those businesses. And those increased costs are either passed on to consumers or reduce the businesses’ profi