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Comment by jdb47

8 days ago

Would be good to know -

Who are the people coming up with these specific rates?

How are they modeling this system?

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frogperson  8 days ago

I am certain they didn't use any liberal math or science or history to arrive at these numbers. It's all just made up by incompetent yes men.

lsllc  8 days ago

According to the BBC reporting, it appears that for each country he's charging 50% of the tariff they place on US goods coming into those countries, or a baseline of 10% for some countries like the UK.

(sorry, this is a BBC live news ticker link):

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A3a34...

And a picture of the chart they had showing the per-country tariffs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A7f78...

  • lawlessone  8 days ago

    its not tariffs

    Trump took the trade surplus the US has with those countries and calcuated the percentage from that.

    • tempestn  8 days ago

      The trade deficit the US has with those countries, or the surplus they have with the US, as a percentage of the country's total exports to the US.

      It's an incredibly simplistic calculation that definitely doesn't equate to the country's tariff rate.