"Trade experts say structuring the reciprocal #tariffs that Trump wants poses big challenges for his team, which may explain why the latest duties were not announced on Tuesday." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... - ThreadSky

codendahl.bsky.social • 17 days ago

"Trade experts say structuring the reciprocal #tariffs that Trump wants poses big challenges for his team, which may explain why the latest duties were not announced on Tuesday." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-readies-reciprocal-us-tariffs-trade-war-fears-mount-2025-02-12/

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cirruslynow.bsky.social•17 days ago

Had no idea what US imports from UK. Nuclear reactors!

cirruslynow.bsky.social•17 days ago

No one asked, but here’s the reciprocal data roughly. UK maybe running $20-30B trade deficit with US.

clong40.bsky.social•16 days ago

Evidence so far is that Trump2 is worse than I feared, but perhaps heading for an early train smash and the fall in TESLA sales in Europe is interesting. The UK playing puppy is unhelpful, but if the EU responds attacking politically sensitive US sectors, the pain may help increase pressure on Trump

codendahl.bsky.social•17 days ago

"At the international level, there’s something like 5,000 different descriptions at the 6-digit (product subheading) level, so 5,000 times 186 nations. It’s almost an artificial intelligence project," he said.

codendahl.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's 930,000, by the way.

haskell.bsky.social•17 days ago

oh! Well Grok can figure that out in a jiffy. Musk will tell us whether or not that's a conflict of interest

peterhense.bsky.social•17 days ago

Machine Learning won’t help with complex real world scenarios.

martinsaysmoin.bsky.social•17 days ago

As anyone who has had to pick up a parcel at the “Zollamt” knows: it can get complicated.

ronsteenblik.bsky.social•16 days ago

The 2022 version of the HS has 5,612 codes at the 6-digit level.

On the other hand, of the 186 members of the World Customs Organization, some belong to customs unions, thus apply the same external tariff, the 27-member EU being the most important. And, of course, the USA counts as 1. So <159.

ronsteenblik.bsky.social•16 days ago

A list of current customs unions.

megavisor.bsky.social•17 days ago

Everybody knows he’s bluffing… trying to bully nations into bending to his will.
The only requirement: give the thin-skinned child an off-ramp so he can pound his chest and lie about it.

Everyone sees through this idiot. He’s only fooling Faux News viewers, and let’s face it, that’s not difficult.

ronnpiano.bsky.social•16 days ago

To be honest, I only want Americans to get what they voted for, in spades since negative re-enforcement seems to be the path to education for them.

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