Do Chinese tariffs on American goods make them more expensive to American consumers? This CNN article seems to imply that Chinese tariffs on American goods will make them more expensive to American consumers. Is this true? I did think that tariffs by your own country on imported foreign goods made those imported goods more expensive, but I also thought tariffs by a foreign country on goods your country exports actually made those goods cheaper for you.

Example statement in the article:


  The cost of the new tariffs can be found in the roughly 1,300 individual products that have suddenly become more expensive.


This statement is followed by a list of "US goods hit by Chinese tariffs
". Clearly the implication is these goods are among the products that have become more expensive.
Well, due to Lerner's Simmetry Theorem, an import tax has the same effect of an export tax. When China makes its imports from the US more expensive, its exports get more expensive too.