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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is Turkey part of EU, but got a lesser rate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Nope they are not. Also it is very funny that they consider EU a country, while every country inside EU has different amount of exports and imports with the USA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I think nothing. The guys are more idiots than i thought. They simply put an equation that balances their exports and imports from other countries. Many say that they simply asked AI for that. Idiots are unpredictable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why are French overseas territories listed as individual nations?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The current thinking is that these tariffs were drawn up by ChatGPT, and it's used a list of top-level domains (like .io and .hm) instead of countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

ccTLDs are based on ISO country codes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Why Bosnia, Serbia and Moldova so much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Make them poor so Trumps daddy can take them? who knows anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Poor countries got screwed. The formula of how tariffs calculated is a simple equation of how much less USA exports to a country than import.

Many poor countries due to currency difference do that and got high tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

If these tariffs were made to benefit Russia, why doesnt Ukraine have a higher percentage?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I saw that it is a simple equation of how much less USA exports to a country. So poor countries that import less from USA due to currency difference and export more they got screwed much more. Russia due to sanctions maybe has no trade currently that's why she is no on the list.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Note that more importantly, Russia has been uniquely spared any tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Don't worry, we got our own "countertariffs".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

Because they weren't made intelligently.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I just heard the reasons for these tariffs is probably based directly on the ratio between trade deficit compared to total trade. A tiny island where almost nobody lives and that never trades with the US got into the highest tariff category because some American bought $3 million worth of sea food in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

User [email protected] gave me the best explanation when I asked what the rationale is for Trump's tariffs:

His logic is: I walk into a store and buy a hat for 10$ and sell them a shoe for 7$. This means the store ripped me off by 3$. To counter this, I will add a tarriff of (3/10)/2 = 15% to all business I do with this store so they dont dare sell me anything in the future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Okay but you're missing the point: I want to believe that this is all a highly planned and funded Russian op because the alternative is that half the country elected someone so incredibly dumb WITHOUT a conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I too would want to belive that Putin is highly planned and funded American(or Chineese) op because the alternative is that half the country elected someone so incredibly senile WITHOUT a conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Oh, there's definitely a conspiracy. Not a big-C Conspiracy, but several smaller ones.

One obvious one is Putin who wants to weaken NATO and therefore the EU and the US, and has been sponsoring extremist parties and spreading fake news and pro-Russian talking points across social media.

Another one is the Republicans have been demonizing Democrats for 4 decades, since Newt Gingrich decided they shouldn't be compromising with Dems anymore, but demonizing them, turning US politics toxic.

Conservative media and especially Rupert Murdoch have supported both of the previous ones and pushed them sometimes even more extreme. Not sure if Murdoch is actually pro-Putin, but several of his outlets have done a lot of heavy lifting for Putin. And of course undermining democracy and supporting oligarchy.

The Tech Bros want even more deregulation. They believe in their digital utopia, at least for themselves, and they want free reign to do whatever they want and shape the world in their image.

And the Evangelicals have basically been lead astray by all of these but especially the Republicans, who lead them by the nose ever since the 1960s when the Evangelicals were upset about desegregation. Grifters have turned it into a for-profit religion that bears no resemblance to Christianity anymore, but makes for a perfect vehicle for all sorts of weird politics, including all of the above.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

That is true. They used a basic equation of how much less they export to a country. And some said that this is the answer that gives the AI if you ask it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Notice how the UK got less? He wants them to follow him like a scottish terrier, and if Farage worms his way into power, I know for a fact they’re going down the same route.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think they meant for this to look like a scorpion about to fuck shit up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only if Russia is sort of a giant, expressive fart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

I mean, that comparison might not be wrong...

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