Comment by anon6362

No, it's worse. Value-added resellers (VARs) and distributors will not pass on tariffs directly. Most retailers double wholesale prices from distributors.. the increases will be an effective price of ~100% once megacorps' pre-staged stocks are depleted. Prices on random things will then spike to where demand will fall through the floor on everything except where there is inelastic demand on essentials. Layoffs and stagflation are just the beginning. And it takes 2-3 years to setup new manufacturing lines and the vertical parts of the supply chain have major upstream unavailability problems without comparable or price-effective options compared to CN.