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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 baseli
by lsllc 2y 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%3A3a34b977-a7be-4159-837c-40b082a54c72#post 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%3A7f78539b-dfc0-4b31-889d-8c28546949d9#post https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A7f78...
- lawlessone 2y agoits not tariffs Trump took the trade surplus the US has with those countries and calcuated the percentage from that.
- lsllc 2y agoInteresting - I haven't seen that mentioned in any of the coverage, do you have a source for that?
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- ammo1662 2y agoA lot of comments have already mentioned that. You can also calculate it by yourself. For example, in 2024, the total value of US trade in goods with China was approximately $582.4 billion, comprising $143.5 billion in exports and $438.9 billion in imports. [0] (438.9-143.5)/438.9=67.3% [0] https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...
- tempestn 2y agoThe 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.