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Except that is not how it works, nor has that been found true in practice.
The importer is not charged anything, the person who receives the goods is charged a 30 percent tariff tax.
Studies from the first Trump tariff war found that 93 percent of the tariff loss is by the person receiving (at least for the US side) buying the good, and only 7 percent is borne by the seller.
Moreover like any excise type tax there is not only a loss for the consumer but also a loss in having to buy substitution products which they perceive as inferior but for the new cost imposed on the products from China they wish to buy.
And it has been shown that when tariffs are raised, the substitution products also go up in price due to reduced competition and scarcity.
The bolded is how the current tariffs work on the Alibaba Express website.
The item prices are the same as pre-tariffs, including when you place the item in your cart.
But when you enter your address while checking-out, they then add a "fee" reflecting the 145% tariff. That's what they itemize it as, "fee". And it's substantially larger than the cost of the item.