By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.

They are a de facto consumption tax which disproportionately affect the less well off.

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“apart” has almost an opposite meaning to “a part” in this context, though “apart from” would make more sense than “apart of.”