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My first thought was "where the fuck did those numbers on the left come from?"
Tarrifs these days are usually protective - they're done on specific goods or industries.
Turns out, those numbers look like they came up with it from trade deficits. They even posted the formula they used
Like holy shit Batman, the onion could have written this last week and I'd think it was solid satire. No wonder they didn't want to do this on April 1st