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minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-216 days agoApparently it was an arbitrary extra 50% on top of the recent 54%, which was the supposed trade deficit plus existing tariffs. I’m not saying it’s not batshit, but the new figure wasn’t a totally random specific number.
minus-squareAussiemandeus@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoSo isn’t only somewhere around 72 percent from original?
minus-squarePofski@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoNow you’re asking them to do correct calculations?
Apparently it was an arbitrary extra 50% on top of the recent 54%, which was the supposed trade deficit plus existing tariffs. I’m not saying it’s not batshit, but the new figure wasn’t a totally random specific number.
So isn’t only somewhere around 72 percent from original?
Now you’re asking them to do correct calculations?