Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: Tariffs are now being paid to the United States by China of 25% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products. These massive payments go directly to the Treasury of the U.S.

Q1: Were China’s tariffs paid to the United States  by China?
A1: Tariffs are a tax paid by American companies and consumers — not by the foreign governments targeted by the tariffs.

Q2: How much did the Trump’s tariffs really cost Americans?
A2: If American technology companies cannot export to China, they would only create next competitors there, while losing access to a huge market.

Q3: Did More Trump Tariffs Hamper China’s Development
A3: It is widely expected that these tariffs have thus far added more than one or two billion dollars in fiscal revenue to US government coffers. President Trump is complacent and self-congratulatory. However, the 10% tariff increase from the previous round seems to have been paid by American companies and consumers! US importers must see their profits eroded by tariffs if they do not directly pass these costs onto US companies downstream. A study by a group of economists from Princeton, Columbia, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates that US companies have suffered a loss of $1.4 billion due to tariffs, while American consumers have footed the bill for more than $3 billion. Another study by another group of economists from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation argues that the US-China trade war has cost the American economy $6.4 billion, equivalent to 0.03% of GDP. It seems unwise to let American companies and consumers take such large losses for such little increase in fiscal revenue.
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justification: The 1st Q&A pair point out that tariffs are paid by the US consumer when buying products from the tariffed country (china) not as is claimed that tariffs are paid by china to the us gov.
The 3rd Q&A pair does giv figures on these tarifs but they are substantially lower than what is claimed overall so as no parts of the claim are proved true then refuted has been chosen.


verdict: 'Refuted'
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