A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.
When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get's to Seattle the US government says "pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat."
The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.
The idea of a personal "Carbon Footprint" was spread as an idea by BP in order to make people believe individual action/responsibility was more important than systemic change.
It worked really well.