China and Wisconsin farmers seem a world apart but President Trump says there is a connection PolitiFact Wisconsin looks at a claim by the President on tariffs and farmers when President Trump was in Milwaukee a few weeks ago he talked a lot about trade and tariffs in fact during my interview with President Trump he claimed that farmers who are hurt by the trade war are also being helped by tariffs we are doing great with farmers now in in a lot of ways one way is we're giving 16 billion dollars out of all the tariffs that were collecting sixteen billion dollars all comes out of the tariffs that we've gotten from job President Trump has increased tariffs or taxes on goods like TVs made in China and imported to the US but PolitiFact Wisconsin says China is not paying the tariffs they are passed on to American consumers tariffs are taxes on imported goods they are paid not by China but by us importers so where does the sixteen billion dollars come from for farmers hurt by the trade war PolitiFact wisconsin says the aid comes from money borrowed by a program under the Department of Agriculture farmers will indeed get a 16 billion dollar aid package what Trump is wrong about where the money comes from so PolitiFact Wisconsin raided the president's claim false