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by jayd16 439 days ago
Not only that, but I assume they'll take more bites of the apple as they go down the list country by country and negotiate better rates for some kind of kickback and market manipulation opportunity.
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it's kinda strange that the largest tariff is in a landlocked country a 5 hour drive from elon musk's hometown.

All the numbers on what a country is supposedly charging america appear to be a complete fabrication so we're forced to find other motivation for setting the numbers the way they did.

Not sure if I understand you correctly. I just watched a Youtube video explaining the formular. The Youtube user checked all 160+ countries. All have been calculated with the formular. So there seems to be no Motivation in this sense. All have received the same broken treatment.