Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Wow this is wild. James: "The Trump team 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." 32682319
causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025For someone who’s convinced tariffs are paid by the originating countries this makes great sense. 010
beachydreams.bsky.social @beachydreams.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Idk what TF that even means...but it feels like they did shit wrong.😵💫 000
Muumi Salo 🇨🇦 @muumisalo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025With this formula, Russia would come in at 83% justifying a whopping 41% reciprocal tariff. Russia is also missing from Trump's list.media.tenor.coma man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shockedALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked 1306
🇨🇦👊🏼💥 @ogsaskie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025On the plus side they have a rudimentary knowledge of Excel???? 110
Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Oh it gets better believe it or not bsky.app/profile/paol...Paolo Bernardi@paolobernardi.bsky.social👀 030
Rain On The Scarecrow Etc @onatuin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025This feels like a really bad college freshman class project where the team shows up in the mid evening before the due date, orders a pizza and a couple pitchers of beer, and begins looking over the assignment and arguing about which details are relevant. 060
cleisthenesforever.bsky.social @cleisthenesforever.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Yeah I guessed they would do something like that.. I’m kind of surprised they could dived though 000
Friendly Neighborhood Murdercat @shanzival.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It's what Grok said they should do 000
Travis 🇨🇦 @travisfigures.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It was quite obvious that it was garbage. The more you looked through it the worse it got. 070
Frisky Dingus @friskydingus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025media.tenor.coma cat is sitting in front of a window with a caption that says `` i live in constant agony ''ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a window with a caption that says `` i live in constant agony '' 050
Carla Kuiken @carlak.bsky.social · 03/04/2025"Chatgpt, give me a list of tariffs and some bullshit to explain it." 010
t-hab.bsky.social @t-hab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025You wouldn't expect them to actually do the work would you? Trade imbalance is not a tariff. It's an indication that one country is either incapable or unwilling to produce something they want at a price their people are willing/able to pay while another country can. Does this change that??? No 010
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 02/04/2025@aslak.bsky.social @antonspisak.bsky.social @alanbeattie.bsky.social @johnspringford.bsky.social To be verified but seems plausible. Some countries that got just 10% don't have VAT rates that are 10.... 2250
John La Rooy @johnlarooy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Australia has only recently had a trade surplus because the oligarchs were buying up extra gold anticipating the tariffs and their impact on the economy 🥹 020
Slowly Sipping Tea ☕️ @slowlysippingtea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Stupid people playing stupid games 000
Jaap Wieringa 🌳🦌🪶 🍋 320ppm @jaapwieringa.eurosky.social · 03/04/2025And by impossing tariffs the imports will likly decline so the defisit will grow etcetera 010
Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 03/04/2025My head literally snapped back from the phone.... What? 020
🇨🇦 Bonnie 🇨🇦 @bonnie50.bsky.social · 03/04/2025St Pierre and Miquelon cracks me up. Virtually no trade with US. Wacky calculation has them at a 50% tariff rate. 🙄 010
🇨🇦 Bonnie 🇨🇦 @bonnie50.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Here's the official trade statistics if you want to try this yourself. I did about 10 big tariff countries and it works every time - ustr.gov/countries-re...ustr.govCountries & RegionsThe United States has trade relations with more than 75 countries around the world. The top five export markets for U.S. goods in 2013 were: Canada, $300.3 billion Mexico, $226.2 billion China, $122 b... 070
Валера | Valera @valerair.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I checked the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 2025 HTS Revision 5 — it's not updated. What does it mean? They have not got ready for the "Liberation Day", or is Trump going to cancel it tomorrow? 000
Erik Elmgren @erikelmgren.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I’m extremely interested if someone has n>1 data to back this up. 440
Michèle Senay @wonder-why.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I guess it just never occured to the Trump administration that the trade deficit can be explained by mere fact that this country just consumes and buys more stuff than any other country on the planet. 1263
JD @jdavis777.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Insane. These people are as dim as they are cruel. Unfortunately 2 traits that get labeled as masculine in the GOP, so they get anointed as leaders. Gtfoh. How long will we follow them off this cliff? 080
Lino @lino.io · 03/04/2025At least it's consistent with their armchair economics skills and complete absence of professionalism. smh 040
James Alexander @jmsalxdr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025 Correct — it’s meaningless nonsense.James Alexander@jmsalxdr.bsky.socialTrump’s ‘tariff chart’ just demonstrates how completely guilty he was of those 34 felony counts for falsified business records — it’s meaningless nonsense. 040