Well they include things like VAT that is basically a sales tax on all goods not just US ones so that probably shouldn't be included. It's also not per country... They just picked some paramaters that reduce to 1 https://x.com/kushdesai47/status/1907618136444067901 Check out the community notes here
They think that the trade should be 'equal'... in other words the same number of imports and exports between the US and each individual country.... "balanced."
However this doesn't include services... and how exactly is a 'poor' country going to buy as much from the US as the US (a rich country) buys?
On a related note, according to Jeffrey Sachs, it's the budget deficit that is causing a trade deficit...
Read for yourself, quite interesting. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-tariffs
The graph clearly says it's not only pure tariffs. There's lots of other types of trade barriers out there.
Does that include estimates for non-tariff barriers, though?
I know the tweeted rates are ludicrously high, but most countries do impose significant trade barriers.
Well they include things like VAT that is basically a sales tax on all goods not just US ones so that probably shouldn't be included. It's also not per country... They just picked some paramaters that reduce to 1 https://x.com/kushdesai47/status/1907618136444067901 Check out the community notes here
https://xcancel.com/kushdesai47/status/1907618136444067901
They think that the trade should be 'equal'... in other words the same number of imports and exports between the US and each individual country.... "balanced."
However this doesn't include services... and how exactly is a 'poor' country going to buy as much from the US as the US (a rich country) buys?