Question: Réunion island is a French region. Why doesn’t it get tariffed with the EU?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
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And as a French Réunion is known to be a place only exporting sugar. Also as an isolated island the prices are 2 to 4 times higher compared to Metropolitan France. Maybe La Reunion is the place where aviation fuel comes from to go to Diego Garcia...
What’s that leave? PE and lunch?
Well we know which of those trump aced.
I know it sounds stupid on stilts but.... come on! How else does an uninhabited island end up on the list?!
I double checked the math. I stared at a wall trying to figure out why I'm the heavens above they would do that.
Then I cried tears of blood.
So, if they’re slapping a tariff on the EU, which means a tariff on 🇫🇷’s goods/services, slapping another tariff on La Reunion makes no sense
They just went through ISO 3166 and made up a tariff number for each of them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
Now I'm definitely not going to my High School 50th.
https://bsky.app/profile/hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social/post/3llugxrcu3c2j
Plus they think trade deficits are bad. I’m mean, you send me all your valuable stuff and I send you paper and digits which you reinvest back in my country. Give me those tasty trade deficits.
https://bsky.app/profile/alexsaysstuff.bsky.social/post/3llucp5zqrc2j
https://bsky.app/profile/hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social/post/3llugxrcu3c2j
tariffs claimed = (trade surplus)/(total exports to USA)
for each country. I have not independently confirmed this, but this is the kind of thing a Trumpkin would do, so I'm believing it until I get evidence otherwise.
https://bsky.app/profile/hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social/post/3llugxrcu3c2j
Looks like James is on Twitter, not BlueSky, so it's not easy to ask them questions. I am curious about certain things (the 10% minimum, a few random small countries that seem unlikely to have a trade surplus with the US, etc.)
They took our trade deficits / value of exports = "tariff rate".
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States assigns many sub-state level polities country codes, so they just used that list. https://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1400statannx.pdf
Reunion is in the CIA Factbook.
Also look at how the tariff list spelled Coco Islands with Keeling in parentheses, exactly the same as the CIA fact book.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/
donald trump ?
Soon they’ll be deporting Puerto Ricans back to Puerto Rico.
These people are even dumber than the average American.
Ignorant and loud is a MAGA hallmark.
Also this stupidity.
https://bsky.app/profile/alexsaysstuff.bsky.social/post/3llucp5zqrc2j
Kinda like billionaires park their money in the Bahamas to avoid paying taxes
But the Trade Deficit in Goods with a territory are reported separately, so will be different.
If you're an idiot pretending these are the same thing, and running a bizarre calculus based on the trade deficit; 'Tarriffs High'
Hardly anyone lives there, so they import hardly anything, from America or anyone else.
But if there's oil or other natural resources in their territory, it would only take a small amount of extraction to create a MASSIVE deficit.
tariff.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-trade-deficit-by-country
Also, ask him if there’s any chance of getting an Aussie passport. Asking for a friend.
Nothing is based on facts it is purely pulling numbers from a hat and try to make it looks serious.
Basically they took the trade deficit divided by the amount of trade and claimed those are tariffs. This will be a score of 0 in Economy!
Obviously that wouldn’t include any rights to make changes, but we might be able to put his name on a billboard at the jetty for a couple of years.
Goddamn free-loaders!
Sorry.
https://bsky.app/profile/hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social/post/3llugxrcu3c2j
give me a spreadsheet of the amount of imports to the United States from other countries divided by the amount of exports from the United States to those countries
Ask it for an extract. It gives numbers in this format.
"Shit's fucked," to use a great Aussie colloquialism.
We need more protests in the Mar-a-Lago area, risky as it sounds.