Comment by stonogo

Any policy made with a lack of understanding this profound is a bad idea. Because they just ran this through a spreadsheet instead of paying any attention, among the tariffs are some uninhabited islands and another region whose only population is a US military base.

The highest tariffs are applied to countries like Madagascar, from which the US imports less than half a billion dollars of goods per annum. A drop in the bucket. Another silly example is the Falkland Islands, whose annual exports to the US don't even hit thirty million dollars. The formula they hit upon is what a high school student would come up with, and is not informed by any actual plan.