Wilder Gedanke zu den verrückten Zöllen, der im Thread noch weiter hinterlegt wird: Trump hat scheinbar das rein auf Güter (ohne Services) bezogene Handelsdefizit als Referenzgröße verwendet und dort, wo kein Defizit besteht, einfach 10% veranschlagt. 🤯
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.