Can Trump defend his tariff calculations?

The items in the table presented by Trump: the complete list of countries, with all the percentages. The example of VAT, considered a duty

Can Trump defend his tariff calculations?

When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s “tariffs charged to the USA” and the new “USA discounted reciprocal tariffs,” there appeared to be some small print underneath the first column, barely readable. Then printed copies started to circulate the garden. Underneath the column showing each country’s “tariffs charged,” it read: “Including currency manipulation and trade barriers.”  It was cl…

Paul Krugman, a renowned economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, harshly criticized the reciprocal tariffs announced by U.S. President Trump in a newsletter he distributed on the 2nd, calling them "completely insane." He also pointed out the contradictions in Trump's tariff hikes and sounded a warning about the precariousness of the second Trump administration, which is filled with "yes men."

These are the highest tariffs imposed by an American president in the last 100 years. And Wednesday afternoon Donald Trump in the? Announcing her he showed a blackboard in which he compared...

When presenting the tariff schedule, Trump emphasized that the goal is to correct long-term disadvantageous trade relations and protect the American economy from unfair practices of other countries. He imposed tariffs of 20 percent on European Union countries. "If you want zero tariffs, make your products here in America," Trump declared outside the White House. Trade surplus as the key According to Česká spořitelna chief economist David Navráti…