• Edwardthefma99✡@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    everyone gets tariffs period its tariffs that is = or less than the tariff on the usa so if penguin has 0 tarrif on the USA then the USA would give a tariff of 0% if a country says ok 20% then the usa would tariff 15 to 20% that’s only fair its like somebody coming to your flee market and demanding you pay them for the right to use your flee market

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      9 days ago
      1. The island has zero huamns, there are no exports of any kind, nor any imports. From or to anyone.

      2. Australia had 0% tariffs with USA (under the Aus-USA Free Trade Agreement) but still got hit with a 10% tariff, again the tariff rate was and still is 0%, but we still got 10%.

      It’s straight forward hitting everyone with a tariff, except his master Putin and Putin’s boyfriend Kim.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Trying to read whatever the hell you tried to write here was as difficult as reading stream of consciousness shit from Joice. I have no idea what you are even trying to say. Perhaps use periods and commas and capital letters??

    • xxd@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 days ago

      Except that is not the strategy at all. They actually used a formula that has nothing to do with the countries tariffs, only with how much they import/export from/to the USA. Why else would they put a tariff on an uninhabited island? The penguins surely had a 0% tariff policy with the USA, which according to your logic would mean, that they would get a 0% tariff as per trumps policy. Instead, all tariffs are at least 10%, because if you actually applied the formula to all countries, some would end up with negative tariffs! I strongly recommend this video by Stand-up Maths to understand how the numbers are actually calculated.