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US imposes 104% tariffs on Chinese goods effective immediately (m.economictimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently it was an arbitrary extra 50% on top of the recent 54%, which was the supposed trade deficit plus existing tariffs. I'm not saying it's not batshit, but the new figure wasn't a totally random specific number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So isn't only somewhere around 72 percent from original?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Now you're asking them to do correct calculations?