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Office of the United States Trade Representative Reciprocal Tariff Calculations
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- viraptor 1y agoWhat people are making fun of is that people responsible for it were trying to deny it's (export-import)/import, but the chosen parameters cancel out completely. So... it's exactly that. And this covers only goods, ignoring services, which skews the numbers quite a lot.
- Jtsummers 1y agoSome of the hardest hit places, too, are places that could never make up the trade deficit. Deficit Tariff Saint Pierre and Miquelon 99 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon - an archipelago with less than 6,000 people. I can't even find how much they actually export to the US, but their exports aren't that significant. By the math used by Trump & co, if they export $1 million in goods to the US and only import $10k from the US, this is the result.
- rsynnott 1y agoIt may be nothing: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
- Havoc 1y agoThe 0.25*4 multiplication factor is a real masterpiece. I guess they let a slightly high intern yolo this?
- rsynnott 1y agoOr a magic robot; it feels like the sort of completely pointless thing that LLMs like to put in.