[Aurornis]

The “reciprocal” tariffs are nothing close to reciprocal. I hope you know by now that the numbers Trump presented were not actual tariff numbers that other countries put on us.

The trust issue is domestic, too. Businesses just got slapped with the largest tax increase in history at home. Pointing fingers at other countries is a distraction. It’s ridiculous to think that this will encourage companies to start building factories here when even the raw materials are now heavily taxed on their way in to the country. Any sane company is going to pause US factory investment until there is some clarity and predictability.

[_bin_]

I think I miscommunicated my support for some trade policy change as support for Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs. Here are things I think we should fix:

- America and Hypotheticalstan each export $1T to each other with a bunch of tariffs on various things. America raises $50B in tariff revenue on Hypotheticalstan’s imports while Hypotheticalstan raises $100B on American imports.

- America doesn’t make enough defense-critical stuff: steel, solar panels, chips, aluminum, rare earths, etc.

- America has a ~$918B trade deficit.

Things I do not care about:

- Vietnam makes our Nikes.

- We have a trade deficit with specifically Vietnam.