[Showdown]

I haven't experienced anything related to car parts (but I'm not buying lots of car parts right now) but I buy a lot of materials from overseas that cannot be found in the USA for my business and I'm getting these responses from vendors:

1.) no shipments to the USA until the tariff mess subsides. Too much lost product, too much hassle, etc...
2.) 50-100% price increases on the vendor end to help absorb the extra hassle, costs, etc...
3.) Prepayment in cash (wire transfer, ACH, etc...) prior to any shipments and I'm on the hook for everything else, including if the shipment is lost or rejected by customs.

I have a lot of feelings and thoughts about this, and I can put most of them aside temporarily, but almost nothing I buy is made in the USA or even sold in the USA and I am forced to import it all. Were there an equivalent analog, even if it were 25% more expensive I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since there isn't I am now forced to either eat those costs and lower my income (and lower how much tax revenue I send to the Fed ((I guess offset by the tariffs)) and my state and county ((not offset by tariffs))) or I raise prices on my customers and then they pause the work and again I lose income and local taxing bodies are deprived of tax revenue.

It's stupid, short sighted and profoundly destructive to what while imperfect was a global economy that largely worked-ish...

/Rant