The US has a large trade imbalance with certain countries, and some think tariffs are the way to fix that.
Trump took a piece of paper, created a list of countries and for each country, he applied a simple formula:
country deficit with US divided by two and apply a percentage to it
And that's how much he figures they owe the US in tariffs.
Trump claims it's justified because this particular country is charging tariffs on US goods.
Which is a total lie.
Take South Korea for instance. 95 percent of goods from the United States are completely exempt from South Korean import tariffs, because we have a trade agreement with South Korea.
A percentage of the population chooses to believe the lie. And Trump presents himself as a crusader righting a wrong. Which creates a circle of ignorance.
Look at the responses here in support of tariffs. They all claim the same thing: they impose tariffs on us, we impose tariffs on them.
Mind you that Trump himself, sent all manufacturing related to the products he pushed to, you guessed it: China.
They also believe, driven by another Trump fat ass lie, that tariffs are paid by the exporter not the importers, because they don't know it's just another ft tax on the American people.
