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edit: complete list is here (4 pages long)
Does this mean Russia doesn't get any tariffs at all? Also, why higher tariffs for Switzerland than the EU, but lower for the UK?
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It seems like they have, generally speaking, made up the numbers by dividing the total value of imports vs exports with that country. So if the USA imports $200,000,000 of stuff from Switzerland and exports $100,000,000, they're saying that that means Switzerland has 50% effective tariffs against America (no, this does not make any goddamn sense, but it appears to be what they're doing), and then "reciprocating" with half of that number, so 25% tariffs on Switzerland. 10% is the floor which they're applying no matter what... except for on Russia, apparently
The UK presumably imports more American stuff, proportionate to exports, than the EU does
Russia is sanctioned (for now at least). For UK and other countries, probably they played some games on closed doors, during the white house visiting. We will see, i don't gonna be surprised if UK buys military equipment from USA (or more that they were planning of).
Lol. There are seriously 185 counties across the four pages of that list. And Russia is not one of them.
This is out of the 193 sovereign states that the UN recognizes. Wild
Several of the entries on the list are not independent countries (French Guiana, for example, has a different rate to the EU despite being part of France and the EU) and one doesn’t even have a human population (Heard & McDonald Islands, an Australian territory near Antarctica)
Oooh. Which one doesn't even have humans?
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Why such high tariffs on Moldova? They’re a poor nation.
I read somewhere that the theory is countries that don't purchase ad much from the us as the us buys from said country got more tarrifs because in trumps mind they're losing money.
Reporters could recreate the entire list exactly by asking ChatGPT/Grok/Claude/Gemini what would be an easy way to tariff other nations.
The tariff % is simply the US trade deficit with that country divided by imports from it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
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I have updated the post with a link to full list. Vietnam got 46% lmao.
for (c in countries) {
c.tariffs = Math.random();
}
Sadly there are many reports, that it's just
for (c in countries) {
c.tariffs = math.max(10,
(c.exportsTo(us) - c.importFrom(us)) /
(c.exportsTo(us)*2))
}
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It's clear who Trump works for.
Switzerland was so proud of avoiding the face eating leopard for so long. But the leopard found out how delectable Swiss faces are.
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10% is the default, no? Does that not include Russia? Not that there should be any trading at the moment.
Russia is not on the list. The bare minimum is 10% from the list. Also the whole list from BBC
Edit: holy fuck i didn't see that there are 4 pages of that list. . .
Mexico, Canada, Russia and Belarus missing from the list
Mexico and Canada have agreements already.
The trump org said that Russia and Belarus are embargo anyway so no trading with them is why they were not there.
But no Russia?
They have sanctions on them, so i do not know what is their current situation in trade with them. I bet that is gonna change though.
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