"Flexport's team was able to reverse engineer the formula the Administration used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs." It's quite simple, they took the trade deficit the US has with each country and divided it by our imports from that country."
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-liberation-day-another-pr
The numbers are from the trade deficit for each country. Not tariffs. It is completely false to call that column "tariffs." Trade deficits are not tariffs. Do you understand this?
Poor messaging by the Trump team. Tariffs against the US are still the problem and Trump is correct to work to correct it.