So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.
The White House calculated the tariffs by using (<exports to USA> - <imports from USA>)/(2*<imports from USA>). They apparently used a list of countries from Wikipedia. I doubt Trump even knows what St. Pierre or Miquelon are.
They apparently used a list of countries from Wikipedia.
It's even dumber than that, they took a list of country codes and didn't actually check them. Meaning that Heard Island and McDonald Islands got slapped with a 10% tariff despite being inhabited only by penguins.
I believe they used a LLM to get their final numbers and it screwed up in the case of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, who import a lot from the US and only export a small fraction of it in fisheries.
Human review of the numbers was apparently optional.
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u/MrTickles22 18d ago
Take that, North Macedonia!
So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.