• happyjee@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Guess 1: calculation of trade deficit Guess 2: based on taxes and fines (like the EU has 19% sales taxes on all its products)

    Either way: Japan did nothing to deserve this, lower or higher tariffs isn’t because favourability (this time)

    • TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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      3 days ago

      Guess 1 is correct. Someone on Reddit figured it out. Formula is: deficit divided by total us exports then the resulting percentage is halvedm