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Re:The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Cha... by YetAnotherMatt on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:32PM (#23717060)
>Europe has high import tariffs

The EU has a weighted import tariff of 1.79% vs 1.66% in the US. For comparison, China is at 3.83% and Japan at 2.51%. Canada, New Zealand and Australia are all lower than the US, at 1.52%, 1.18%, and 1.27% respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

This is mostly 2017 data, which means the recent US-China tariff war could very well have resulted in the US having a higher weighted import tariff than the EU by now.

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Re:The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Cha... by koheripbal on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:13PM (#23717496)
Kudos for looking up real data - but it's hard to say how much of these numbers are for manufacturing.
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