That's basically the point of a tariff; to discourage people from buying foreign goods and to encourage production and sale of domestic goods instead.

The only times it doesn't work correctly is when too much of the general populace refuses to do the work necessary to create production, domestic regulations make production locally too prohibitively expensive, and/or when domestic product manufacturers raise their prices to match the new higher tariffed prices, effectively cancelling the intended benefits of a tariff.

The USA right now is kinda seeing the effects of all 3. It has been so reliant on imports for such a long time that trying to cut that off all at once is having a more pronounced effect than if its import reliance was curtailed more slowly and started a while ago. And since there is no regulation (AFAIK) saying that domestic good prices cannot raise to match imported good prices when tariffed, that doesn't help either. Businesses want the most money, and if all the other options for a product are $150 and their domestic one is only $50, without law saying they can't match those other prices businesses feel like they are leaving $100 on the table.

For sure, I am just curious. Not to lecture others, for my own knowledge. :)

I see where you are coming from, but as someone who speaks several other languages, I would say there can be benefits to lanagauge rules.

“Impactful” is a heinous travesty of the language. I’ve actually seen “impactfulness” used too. Also bad is “impacts” … “the stock market has suffered several impacts due to low business confidence.” This cumbersome wording tries to amp up the drama. It’s much cleaner to say “The stock market has been affected by low business confidence.” Aside from the shock value of replacing “affected” with impacted, a metaphor for bodily collision, many have turned to impacted because the subtle difference between affected and effected intimidates them.

Be the better person. Avoid the hokey metaphor.

Btw, media uses “slammed” and “pounds” and other Batman words simply because they get more clicks than rebuked or chastized. Don’t be a headline writer.

Didn't mean to imply you can't, I was just curious about the formal rules for the word.

And it seems "impacted" can be used in the sense of "affected".

I am confused :)

Just a quick web search; the first few results which linked to dictionary style resources.

Now I am confused. :)