This explanation seems horrific but sound. 10%tariffs if your balance of trade is roughly equal. It’s a shakedown & a protection racket. He’ll lift them by domestic sector and even maybe individual companies, as well as perhaps the occasional nation, as a reward for pledges of blind allegiance.
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I heard that elections can be posptponed in a national emergency
And last night I heard people calling the trade issue a national emergency
So it's all about trade deficits, not tariff rates.
So there's nothing "reciprocal" about it.
One big lie continuously told by a man who still can't understand it's ok for him to spend more with his local supermarket than they spend with him.
Everything Trump does is designed to harm the US and help Russia.
Syria: 40%
EU: 20%
UK: 10%
Iran: 10%
Ukraine: 10%
Russia: 0%
Belarus: 0%
North Korea: 0%
Whose side is Trump on?
(And would Syria have been 0% under Assad?)
Americans must do something to have this man removed from office…
So when the shit really hits the fan through rising inflation, increases in cost of living, etc he’ll just con them again by claiming it’s because of what others are doing.
(I think!)
We have the baseline and zero reciprocal.
This is the clearest explanation I've seen and I tend to trust @edconway.bsky.social on this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtVQANSQf8
in which he predicted the world they want us to live in.
Rumour has it Trump was presented with a few options for the calculation and chose this one…
US sales tax is generally a lot lower than UK/EU VAT, but yes it’s exactly the same but beyond the wit of Trump as he has complained about VAT in other countries whether it was part of these calcs or not
The 10% for UK is there because they haven’t got a big trade deficit with us
You named it: it's a protection racket.
https://bsky.app/profile/tomoljenkins.bsky.social/post/3llvb6lxp3c2t
Your landlord raising your rent unless you do him a favor.
This shakedown is for personal gain using the economic might of the United States.
In developing America’s economy, he knows they will need access to minerals for things like semiconductors to be self-sufficient.
It’s actually ~<3%.
Is anyone actually surprised though?
Donnie Dumbfuck has never cared about facts, truth or logic… why would he start now?
All countries just need to start moving trade away from the US to each other.
Isolate them.
I suspect Vietnam and Cambodia - at least - are worse off than Russia and North Korea
Maths itself would become split in two, with sane logic rarely explored while *new* Alt-Maths was taught in schools (when the kids arent in mandatory Bible study ofc)
I vote for sooner than later...
Do they think he's a fucking idiot too?