Okay. Does anyone know where he found the numbers for the tariffs placed on America by other nations? Cause I tried to find the Europe one, and can’t quite figure out where he got 39%?
Someone figured out it's the most recent deficit in trade goods (excluding services, where US always runs a surplus) divided by the total goods that country exported to the US last year.
Or in other words, not tariffs, currency manipulation or trade barriers at all.
Basically they took a number out of their perceived opponents trade surplus and then manipulated it to benefit their messaging?? Or am I misunderstanding?
Yes, that's right. Or if the US is the one with the surplus, they put in 10%, because apparently everyone is ripping off the US in Trump's head. Except Russia. Russia is apparently fine.
Should have mentioned that if trade in goods was balanced or US is running a surplus, he put in 10%. Because in his mind, everyone is ripping the US off.
Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia will benefit, too.
When it's harder to sell to the US, and more expensive to buy from the US after reciprocal tariffs are imposed, countries will trade more with other rich economies. And trade makes countries wealthy.
No no no, you don't get it! It's proof they're good at darts. You know? One global map on one whole, a dart pointing system on the other. I wonder who played ?
32% on Taiwan? So every chip produced in Taiwan by TSMC will cost 32% more now? Hope their Arizona plant ramps up quickly! Good thing that Biden got that going, Trump should thank him.
Believing that poorer countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Ecuador, Morroco, Botswana, Myanmar, Pakistan have somehow "ripped off" the US is beyond laughable. These places provided cheap labour for products Americans want.
Unbelievable to hear richest country in world playing victim.
We dropped more bombs on Laos than all the bombs in WWII total. They use unexploded ordnance as a building material in homes because it's so plentiful. The whole landscape is pockmarked from the 270 million bombs we dropped. And now we're bitching that they're not our good friends.
Sri Lanka? They have a GDP roughly the size of Virgina Beach VA. The people in Trump's cabinet meeting make more than the total population of Sri Lanka.
My theory: Trump's staff tossed every country in the world's name into a hat, but there were only so many slots available on the chart. Trump drew names until they ran out of slots. That way they can say with a (mostly) straight face that he was involved in the decision-making.
They took the import and export total from each country vs US to find a percentage and then cut it in half (discounted). It’s not tariffs, it’s the trade deficit percentage. A fraudulent & truly wild way to justify this nonsense.
Agree, thanks for posting. I see 2 things - lower tariffs on Central and SA countries where Rubio made immigrant detention deals, and a semiconductor hit (used in computer components including AI, CC).
China: 34%, South Korea: 25%, Vietnam: 46%, Indonesia: 32%, Malaysia: 24%, TAIWAN : 32%.
China provides raw materials to third parties following trade restrictions. Taiwan is heavily invested in US-based manufacturing (fab wafer production). Not sure how this will impact Taiwan Semiconductor. I'm upgrading electronic devices (phone, tablet, laptop) now before prices go up.
Trumps speech today shows he has never read a book, let alone a history book or a ecomonics phamplet in his life! I guess he thinks his listeners have never read a book either. Some one give him a quarter so he can buy a clue. After all his failed and bankrupted business, all he can do is grift
I was trying to work out what order it was in? Amount? No.
Alphabetical? No. Graphic? No. Population? No.
Spite/ butt hurtedness rating? “ I remembered the name of a country somewhere”?
Probably.
Judging by the chart, it looks fair enough for me. I’m all in for tariffs. Other countries and been taking our manufacturing for years. It’s time to put Americans back to work.
There's no going back. You will be poorer for this just so that trump can give another massive tax cut to the 1%. Maga have to realize that they're on the menu too. You're being played by a gd conman. Wake TF up.
The US will be a poor country. The "golden age" trump refers to (1870-1913) was the age of the robber barrons. There were 5 depressions and 15 recessions in that span. Canada will be trading tariff free with everyone except trumpistan. US consumers just got a major tax hike.
Canada doesn’t stand a chance with a tariff war against the United States. It would be better for Canada just to drop its tariffs altogether. That would settle at all. Free trade amongst both countries. Zero tariffs.
Have you ever taken an economics course? You are woefully ignorant about the basics of tariffs. Isolating the United States economically is an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Perhaps you will learn when you lose your job, and your retirement account shrinks in half.
But I doubt it.
I would put nothing past that piece of shit. I've heard this as well and he was always perving on the teens in the beauty contests. I mean we was great friends with Jefferey Epstein .. about as child rapey as you can get. I so wish he would have crashed in Epstein's plane. What a fitting end. SAD!
This is an old article. A court date was set for Oct 13, 2016. Then it was postponed until after the election. The woman got so many death threats from Trump supporters that she was scared off.
What is that orange buffoon playing at now?
Canada is not on this list?
Does he think this gives him an advantage because it doesn't.
Canada will never trust this felon.
They're in order of the countries he considers the worst offenders first to last. It indicates he's either being manipulated or he's too stupid to remember who he wants to go after the most.
Shit like this makes me real glad I got my citizenship finalized outside the US, moved there and transferred assets. I KNEW this madman would do something this stupid.
He'll have everyone in breadlines and making mudpies and calling it a "temporary" thing that's all Biden's fault.
I'm just surprised with his fixation on valuable minerals, trump didn't impose massive tariffs on Wakanda. What with their vast vibranium reserves and all.
Did anyone mention to Temu POTUS that Myanmar literally just had a devastating earthquake? Remember the days when America jumped the line to offer support to countries suffering disasters like this?
Did you notice how the tariffs were defined? "Including currency manipulation and Trade barriers" that could very well include exchange rates and ban on illegal food additives and Lead poison or basically undesirable products that are imported but not sold.
Trump falsely claimed that. But a viral screenshot of a tweet by a journalist claims the rates (using the Indonesian page) are the 2024 total goods trading deficit divided by the total annual imports. Except link is the data for Russia. Per the 2024 data, Russia should be on the list at 83%.
For EU it might be tarrif of 3-5% + VAT 10-20% + some random number to take into account some regulated goods like chlorinated chicken for example.
To arrive at 39%.
But note that Guyane (French Guyana) should be the same since they have the same regulation and tarrif/Vat than France.
So... Bullshit
somebody copy and pasted a spreadsheet table directly into the graphic.
this will have another column of data that they were sorting by. wonder what it could be. expected skim or exception carve out donations from each. that would be my guess
Example of government WASTE, administrative $WASTE.
Having to read through constantly changing complex and poorly implemented charts at the border to figure out which package of the billions of incoming packages has to pay X amount of tariffs.
It will also SLOW DOWN imports. Packages will pile up.
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Or in other words, not tariffs, currency manipulation or trade barriers at all.
1) Name various countries, not taking continents into account;
2) Say numbers.
We're done here.
Canada? Mexico? Huffing & puffing, but no tariffs.
And Russia is free as a bird. Russian assets in the WH?
Could it be because we stood up to the clown?
VERY curious....
Isreal being on the list. 😀
When it's harder to sell to the US, and more expensive to buy from the US after reciprocal tariffs are imposed, countries will trade more with other rich economies. And trade makes countries wealthy.
Unbelievable to hear richest country in world playing victim.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-nixes-us-import-tariffs-a-day-before-trump-set-to-levy-duties-on-trade-allies/
39% is just rediculous.
The moron included 21% VAT. But VAT is payed by for every product bought by consumers, Dutch products aswell.
And above that we import more than we export to the US.
#tariffs
China: 34%, South Korea: 25%, Vietnam: 46%, Indonesia: 32%, Malaysia: 24%, TAIWAN : 32%.
We all know how that worked out.
Alphabetical? No. Graphic? No. Population? No.
Spite/ butt hurtedness rating? “ I remembered the name of a country somewhere”?
Probably.
MAGA: RAAAAAAWWWWRR
Trump: USING TARIFFS
MAGA: raaawwr
Trump: specifically fucking Cambodia.
MAGA: is that next to Venezuela?
Perhaps you will learn when you lose your job, and your retirement account shrinks in half.
But I doubt it.
I noticed also. You can tell, either the chart was put together haphazardly or a younger person put it together!
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yes-donald-trump-was-accused-of-raping-a-13-year-old-but-this-lawsuit-has-little-chance-of-succeeding/
I don't know who filled all those vacancies, but there appears to have been a concerted effort to intimidate staff who knew what they were doing.
Nor is there a search box.
It boggles the mind, so easy to implement.
Canada is not on this list?
Does he think this gives him an advantage because it doesn't.
Canada will never trust this felon.
What about Greenland ?
Wharton:
So if we are poor, we can crash your economy hard
He is such a cunt
He'll have everyone in breadlines and making mudpies and calling it a "temporary" thing that's all Biden's fault.
I guess more than with Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
Round((import_goods-export_goods)/(import_goods*2) , 10)
I gave him too much credits.
To arrive at 39%.
But note that Guyane (French Guyana) should be the same since they have the same regulation and tarrif/Vat than France.
So... Bullshit
Therefore my conclusion.
this will have another column of data that they were sorting by. wonder what it could be. expected skim or exception carve out donations from each. that would be my guess
Having to read through constantly changing complex and poorly implemented charts at the border to figure out which package of the billions of incoming packages has to pay X amount of tariffs.
It will also SLOW DOWN imports. Packages will pile up.
There's no way on the DOGE site to search and sort, even though implementing search is EASY and sort is ROUTINE.
#DOGE did provide a downloadable app BUT would you trust possible spyware on your computer from DOGE hackers?
Did I miss something?
Reagan on Tariffs
https://bsky.app/profile/llfarm.bsky.social/post/3llumbqubtc2b