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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114271043461336361">Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 09:06:01 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" title="gottalaff@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/320172-48-20250122082050.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Laffy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Laffy</a></section><article><p>Via Angry Staffer:</p><p>I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpTax" rel="tag">#TrumpTax</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tariffs" rel="tag">#tariffs</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4836170#notice-9470751">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-03T09:06:01+09:00" title="Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 09:06:01 JST">about 8 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114271043461336361" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114271043461336361">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4406090">James Surowiecki: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:It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.
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Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 09:06:01 JST Laffy
Via Angry Staffer:
I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
#TrumpTax #tariffs
In conversationabout 8 days ago from mstdn.socialpermalink
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1. James Surowiecki: 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: It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff. U.S.A. Discounted
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