alt Hacker Newsfor starters, countries will sell to the UK , which will resell to the US at the lowest tarriff rate. Great for the UK, but stupid.
I try to sympathize with trump's deglobalization agenda but it is probably exactly what it seems to be : a colossal stupidity.
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bitshiftfaced • 04/03/2025
In that example, the UK would soon run a trade surplus, and presumably the US would increase their tariff.
Just shipping goods through the UK does not make them UK-origin. They have to have a "substantial transformation".