It also requires human labor, which isn't impacted by tariffs directly, but may be impacted by other government actions in the US. Such as the ongoing high profile crackdown on illegal immigrant labor.
Don’t believe the political rhetoric. They’re making a big show and behaving poorly with the masks and other abuses, but they’re not actually doing abnormally high deportations.
Note that any large country will have a steady flow of deportations due to basic enforcement of immigration laws.
Deporting 100 people working at a factory has a different economic impact than deporting 100 people at the moment they were trying to cross the border.
If people think prices will go up they will insist on bigger raises. It's why expectations can be as important as what 'actually' happens:
Depends on the "they". These folks seem to have:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_port_strike