alt Hacker NewsThe "numbers" appear to:
* Punish Ecuador, who uses the US dollar, for being a "currency manipulator", which obviously makes zero sense
* Punish Lesotho, whose population is too poor to ever afford US goods, because they export a lot of resources that we use
* Punish countries like Columbia for being big coffee exporters where there is no hope of building up a domestic coffee industry because that's not how agriculture works
* Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins
It's just dumb.
Aren't you cherry picking to make a point though? Certainly there are impacts on other countries though, and they're likely aligned (in theory) with their stated concern that countries are leveraging trade deficits to take advantage of the US.
> Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins
This would be a great sound bite, but its also entirely useless. If the only inhabitants are penguins then a tariff on paper means nothing, they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.