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by croes 439 days ago
> if the US imports $100 million worth of goods and services while exporting $50 million to a country, then the Trump Administration alleges that country levies a 50 percent tariff on the United States

The Trump Administration ignores the services and only looks at goods. So the base is already wrong.

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They’re also rolling up local taxes like VAT as Tariffs it seems