Comment by xrd

13 days ago

I saw a post on X which said it was "vibe tariffing" and I think the person was speculating that the tariffs were probably generated using an LLM and saying "make me a tariff chart with ALL the countries and each one about 25% but randomize them."

That's the only plausible explanation I can see. A human with any brains wouldn't put tariffs on islands only populated by penguins.

Doge should look into this inefficiency.

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matt-p  13 days ago

I think it's basically reciprocal adjusted for trade deficit, with a floor of 10%.

So obviously you'll end up with 10% on all sorts of places where you actually have a trade surplus and no tarrifs on your goods, or, yes, islands inhabited only by penguins.

lostlogin  13 days ago

But some of those places aren’t even countries. As already stated - weird.

It’s almost like it wasn’t well thought out.

  • 4ggr0  13 days ago

    Thankfully this is the only thing which this administration hasn't thought out as well as it should have.

    Only barely four years left, yaaaay!