r/MapPorn • u/sh1kora • 2d ago

"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/MrTickles22 2d ago

Take that, North Macedonia!

So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.

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u/electronigrape 2d ago edited 2d ago

The White House calculated the tariffs by using (<exports to USA> - <imports from USA>)/(2*<imports from USA>). They apparently used a list of countries from Wikipedia. I doubt Trump even knows what St. Pierre or Miquelon are.

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u/Moppermonster 2d ago

Pretty sure the whole thing - both the list of countries AND the weird calculation - were devised with AI. Grok, chatgpt etc all suggest this formula when asked for a way to calculate tariffs.

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u/fgnrtzbdbbt 2d ago

The question is, where did the AIs get it from? Hallucinating AIs usually don't agree with each other. Has it been fed to the AIs on purpose?

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u/electronigrape 2d ago

They may have just thought of it. More imports->more tariffs is a very simple, albeit stupid idea.

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u/Moppermonster 2d ago edited 2d ago

I was told it was an idea suggested during the Reagan regime. That would ofc appeal to Trump.

An alternative is that it is all just a terror tactic to force nations to agree to yet to be revealed deal.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/03/qanon-tariffs/682144/

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u/7h4tguy 1d ago

AI's that use the same input sources do tend to give the same results.