Owners and Employees Turn to Social Media for a Crash Course in Tariff Impacts

Two recent posts on the social media platform asking if entrepreneurs and their workers are battling misunderstanding of who pays Trump’s import duties unleash hundreds of frustrated, infuriated replies.
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