Office of the United States Trade Representative Reciprocal Tariff Calculations (opens in new tab)

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15 pointsshidoshi11mo ago5 comments

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What 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.

Jtsummers11mo ago

Some 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 - 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.

rsynnott11mo ago

It may be nothing: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

Havoc11mo ago

The 0.25*4 multiplication factor is a real masterpiece. I guess they let a slightly high intern yolo this?

rsynnott11mo ago

Or a magic robot; it feels like the sort of completely pointless thing that LLMs like to put in.

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viraptor11mo ago

Jtsummers11mo ago

Some of the hardest hit places, too, are places that could never make up the trade deficit.

                              Deficit   Tariff
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon   99        50

rsynnott11mo ago

It may be nothing: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

Havoc11mo ago

The 0.25*4 multiplication factor is a real masterpiece. I guess they let a slightly high intern yolo this?

rsynnott11mo ago

Or a magic robot; it feels like the sort of completely pointless thing that LLMs like to put in.

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