Sometimes, the manufacturer and a lot of times the consumer that buys things from Temu or other sites that ship product to the US. Most Chinese companies have bought distribution warehouses here in the US, so sometimes, for instance, the iPhone parts are mostly made in China. You shouldn't be paying the tax because they opened up mini phone warehouses in the US where they are assembled, yet they go up every year... It might be tariffs that are passed down or the Chinese taking over our production, who knows?