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Tis OK

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Curious and avid reader. Contributor to data science applied to journalism.

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11 months ago
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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11 months ago

Such a different modus operandi than for the tust op ed student.
This version : quietly but certainly... Does not lead to protests...
Would there really be 2 different processes if that was the same gov behind?

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