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The average American family will pay about $2,500 more this year because of tariffs. But unlike inflation, your wages won't rise to compensate. That's because tariffs work differently than inflation.

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The lowest-cost goods on Amazon saw one of their largest single-day increases on Feb. 15, two days after Trump signed an order suggesting tariffs would apply to most U.S. trading partners.

However, as economists and fact-checkers stressed, this is not the case. The companies importing the tariffed goods -- American companies or organizations in this case -- pay the higher costs.