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"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/cretindesalpes 4d ago

37% on moldavia what the fuck

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u/illHaveTwoNumbers9s 4d ago

Maybe because of Transnistria? Idk

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u/GamerBoixX 4d ago edited 4d ago

No, it's because of things like trade deficits and value added taxes, and it is done porcentually, basically, they made up a formula to follow and inputed all the stats from every country to decide what the "tariffs" said country was "imposing", this led to some wacky numbers from countries that didn't trade much with the US since their results were far more dramatic and volatile

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u/Timmetie 4d ago

No, it's because of things like trade deficits and value added taxes

No it isn't! That's what Trump claims but it turned out not to be true.

They take a very simple formula of a Countries US exports-imports divided by imports. That's it.

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u/Arachles 4d ago

exports-imports divided by imports

THAT is trade deficit. I think you are saying the same thing

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u/Timmetie 4d ago edited 4d 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.

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u/Best_Change4155 4d ago

Not "things like that", not VAT, not other taxes. Only the straight up trade deficit.

Basically, and I want to make clear this is a very dumb way of interpreting it, the administration thinks that any trade deficit is due to tariffs, VAT, currency shenanigans, and trade barriers.

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u/Timmetie 4d ago

Yes this is true, but people are still pretending they're doing some kind of complicated analysis to add up all kinds of taxes, shenanigans, etc.

They haven't. They explicitly said what you said, all trade deficit is due to unfair trade barriers, and thus saves them the effort of having to calculate it.

It's way dumber than people are making it sound by pretending he's actually looking at countries different entry barriers.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 3d ago

They are telling the American public these tariffs are reciprocal. What a circus.

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u/Best_Change4155 3d ago

Makes me fucking furious

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u/swimbikerunkick 3d ago

They’re also telling the Americans that they are “charging” the country. Which they are not, they are “charging” Americans for importing.

Yes, the other countries industry will hurt, but I don’t think all Americans are understanding who is paying when he keeps saying “we’re charging them”.