politics

Turns out my comment yesterday was incorrect - the truth is somehow even stupider

US trade deficit with a country ÷ that country's exports to US = "tariffs charged to the USA"

It's really that simple and boneheaded

In addition, it seems that the admin may have arrived at this formula by asking an LLM 🥴

Those numbers on the left are largely made up. For example for the EU and Australia they seem to be including stuff like VAT taxes which are applied to all goods and services regardless of origin. Those aren't import tariffs. These numbers are being debunked in real time on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StockMarket/comments/1jpzjhi/full_list_of_reciprocal_tariffs/ml3b4x6/

High level though, this administration has been proven to lie and BS time and time again, we really shouldn't be taking any numbers like this at face value anyway.

QC didn't work, this is the comment in question

QC didn't work, this is the comment in question 
https://warpcast.com/seanwince/0x6991a9d6

Never thought I'd say I miss the policy wonks 🥲