The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Angrboda]

A conjecture that seems to square with Trump's cited "reciprocal" tariffs is that the administration is taking the trade deficit with that country and dividing it by the total amount of imports from that country, and citing that as the "tariff" and trade barriers that the country is applying to U.S. imports. They then divide that percentage by two in order to arrive at their so-called reciprocal tariff. If that is what they are indeed doing, then that is totes batshit.