US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China

Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by xrd on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:27AM (#43567530)

I saw a post on X which said it was "vibe tariffing" and I think the person was speculating that the tariffs were probably generated using an LLM and saying "make me a tariff chart with ALL the countries and each one about 25% but randomize them."

That's the only plausible explanation I can see. A human with any brains wouldn't put tariffs on islands only populated by penguins.

Doge should look into this inefficiency.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by matt-p on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:56AM (#43567783)

I think it's basically reciprocal adjusted for trade deficit, with a floor of 10%.

So obviously you'll end up with 10% on all sorts of places where you actually have a trade surplus and no tarrifs on your goods, or, yes, islands inhabited only by penguins.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by lostlogin on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:51AM (#43567734)

But some of those places aren’t even countries. As already stated - weird.

It’s almost like it wasn’t well thought out.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by blacklion on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:59AM (#43567811)

> It’s almost like it wasn’t well thought out.

Joke of the month.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by 4ggr0 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:51AM (#43568287)

Thankfully this is the only thing which this administration hasn't thought out as well as it should have.

Only barely four years left, yaaaay!

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by blacklion on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:59AM (#43567808)

For many countries patter look like ($USA-import - $USA-export)/$USA-import.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by jonasced on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:29AM (#43571153)

I'm not saying they make sense but according to the US Trade Representative this is the equation used to calculate the tariffs:

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

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