

*Trading partner tariff rate is calculated by the White House to include “currency manipulation and trade barriers.”
This needs to be way fucking bigger than a tiny light grey caption under the image, AP. “Trading partner tariff rate is pulled directly out of the administration’s collective rear end”
This can’t explain the exclusion of Russia, since the entirely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands got their own entry on the list. There cannot be a trade balance with a place where nobody lives. The islands got the “base rate” of 10%, so for Russia to have been excluded there has to have been another reason