alt Hacker NewsWould be good to know -
Who are the people coming up with these specific rates?
How are they modeling this system?
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cco • 04/03/2025
It's trade deficit divided by total exports divided by 2.
lsllc • 04/02/2025
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...
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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.