Would be good to know - Who are the people coming up with these specific rates? ...

frogperson · 2025-04-02T21:58:58 1743631138

I am certain they didn't use any liberal math or science or history to arrive at these numbers. It's all just made up by incompetent yes men.

cco · 2025-04-03T09:05:23 1743671123

It's trade deficit divided by total exports divided by 2.

lsllc · 2025-04-02T22:31:12 1743633072

According to the BBC reporting, it appears that for each country he's charging 50% of the tariff they place on US goods coming into those countries, or a baseline of 10% for some countries like the UK.

(sorry, this is a BBC live news ticker link):

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A3a34...

And a picture of the chart they had showing the per-country tariffs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A7f78...

lawlessone · 2025-04-02T23:02:34 1743634954

its not tariffs

Trump took the trade surplus the US has with those countries and calcuated the percentage from that.

tempestn · 2025-04-03T06:24:26 1743661466

The trade deficit the US has with those countries, or the surplus they have with the US, as a percentage of the country's total exports to the US.

It's an incredibly simplistic calculation that definitely doesn't equate to the country's tariff rate.

lsllc · 2025-04-02T23:36:20 1743636980

Interesting - I haven't seen that mentioned in any of the coverage, do you have a source for that?

ammo1662 · 2025-04-03T06:10:43 1743660643

A lot of comments have already mentioned that. You can also calculate it by yourself.

For example, in 2024, the total value of US trade in goods with China was approximately $582.4 billion, comprising $143.5 billion in exports and $438.9 billion in imports. [0]

(438.9-143.5)/438.9=67.3%

[0] https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...