I believe the idea was "Very High Tarrifs" and the formula was some kid in MS Excel . They are definitely not reciprocal. They don't need to be, since the plan was to use the high tarrifs as negotiating tool to somehow reduce the US national debt
1. The administration used an LLM on certain data and it incorrectly conflated the countries.
2. Certain companies listed regions of export to avoid customs, duties, or for other reasons and it now indirectly got exposed. The article alludes to this without saying so?
3. The administration listed what seemed like inconsequential regions for the purpose of preventing Australia, for this example, of just saying it was exported from Norfolk Islands to dodge tariffs. Although, this is giving the administration way too much credit and if they are reading this don’t steal this as reason. :-)
I don't think it's LLM, not everthing is AI, just because that's the hot topic of the day. This forumla is too simple, it's essentially 0.5 * (their_portion_of_trade_deficit / total_trade_deficit_with_country) % . It's not complex at all and that formula fits all the % calculated by Trump's board of "liberation" too closely to not be essetially what he and his cronies came up with. Likely one of the DOGGie boys
But how do you explain an uninhabited semi-independent (as i understand it) island with no trade with the US getting higher tariffs than Australia, the country it's broadly part of?
I think that is just sane washing. Original idea was that tariffs are good and America is being ripped off whenever it buy stuff. The rest are mutually exclusive rationalizations by Trump loyalists trying to make it sound reasonable.
There are multiple of these explanations and none od them is consistent with actual decisions.
The only thing that fixes the Budget deficit is higher taxes (likely on the upper middle class and on up, especially the wealthy and corps) and lowered spending. Nothing else will fix it. It's not because of trade deficits. Any moron can see that but that says a lot about Trump and his toadie circle.
Numerous times, he conflates debt and budget deficit. He has even confused the direction his budget goes in. These terms are just backdrops for the things he wants to talk about: immigration, lack of loyalty to whites from other races, etc.
