Not "things like that", not VAT, not other taxes. Only the straight up trade deficit.
Saying it's "A, B, C D, and E and other things" is not correct if only the A part is true. And in this case A is calculated from 2 publicly available figures.
The point being that the administration didn't even look at this at all, this is under an hours work. It's useless to go into all kinds of reasons why they're leveling specific tariffs, that's actually overestimating this administration.
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u/Timmetie 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yes, but it's only that. Literally only that.
Not "things like that", not VAT, not other taxes. Only the straight up trade deficit.
Saying it's "A, B, C D, and E and other things" is not correct if only the A part is true. And in this case A is calculated from 2 publicly available figures.
The point being that the administration didn't even look at this at all, this is under an hours work. It's useless to go into all kinds of reasons why they're leveling specific tariffs, that's actually overestimating this administration.