Liz Upton

I don't work at Pi any more; but yes, you can assume it will. Along with the prices of everything else!

03.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sri Lanka The United States and Sri Lanka held the sixth bilateral Council meeting under the U.S.-Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) in May 2008. At the meeting, the United States stresse...

(2 of 2)The numbers weren't making sense, so I picked Sri Lanka randomly to try to find out what this 88% tariff the US describes really is.

It's not a tariff. It's the trade gap. ustr.gov/countries-re... The US exports 88% less stuff to Sri Lanka than it imports. That's all there is to see here.

03.04.2025 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(1 of 2) Two objections here: for heaven's sakes, order your data. You have three columns, so order alphabetically or go by number. (Although I guess chaos is the point.)

And also, and probably more importantly, these figures that they say the US is being charged are completely made up.

03.04.2025 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Want an example of just how batshit these new tariffs are?

Apparently the Falkland Islands got hit with 41%. They have three thousand inhabitants and exported $306 million of products in 2019. Which included $255 million in exports of mollusks and $30 million of frozen fish.

03.04.2025 10:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🧵🪡 https://www.threads.net/@lizupton62

06.07.2023 11:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello, Kev!

03.07.2023 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0