Detta måste vara den dummaste administrationen någonsin. Inte bara tycks Trump inte veta hur tullar fungerar, han verkar inte ens förstå vad tullar
är.
Från The Guardian:
Citat:
Many people have been asking how the Trump administration worked out its tariffs, while many countries have been arguing the numbers bear no relationship with reality.
New Zealand’s trade minister insisted his country did not apply a 20% tariff to US imports, as suggested by Washington, while Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, insisted the US tariffs had “no basis in logic” and that “a reciprocal tariff would be zero, not 10%.”
One journalist claims to have discovered the answer, and analysts are suggesting he is likely correct.
“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,” financial writer James Surowiecki wrote in a post on X.
“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.”
Det är både skrämmande och skrattretande hur folk runt omkring Trump är antingen så pass inkompetenta att de inte förstår bättre, eller för fega för att våga säga något. Patetiskt är det hur som helst.
