[Alberta's Child]

It’s clear to me that the Trump team didn’t put a lot of thought into any details of trade policy. That wasn’t driven by laziness or incompetence. It was done this way because they expect every one of these tariffs to be negotiated downward individually on a case-by-case basis.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

It’s clear to me that the Trump team didn’t put a lot of thought into any details of trade policy.

The thing I love most about Trump is that he understands simple solutions work best, long term.

To determine tariff rates, the Trump team devised a simple mathematical formula and applied it across the board to 180 countries.

A normal bureaucracy would have spent 18 months studying the trade history for each country, complete with working groups, position papers, and decision briefs.

[NEMDF]

I agree. I also thought it was likely that keeping it simple keeps the whole policy from being “fact checked” to a great degree, but the MSM and leftists. It is easy to understand, and mostly presented in a way that seems “fair”.

But I think that much of it will be negotiated on individual bases with the various countries, and probably will have many changes (to our benefit) by 6 months out. JMHO

[nopardons]

NONSENSE!

[central_va]

Seems to me that globalist Nazis haven't put much thought into how destructive Free Trade is to the USA.