"N’est-il pas paradoxal que la France consacre des milliards d’euros pour permettre un départ plus précoce à la retraite alors que ces sommes pourraient être consacrées à l’avenir du pays, à l’amélioration du système éducatif?" @telos_eu
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I can confirm I've replicated the CEA calculation for the so-called "tariffs charged to the USA" on these charts.
It is the Census FT900 trade data, exhibit 4, for year 2024, and the formula is MAX(10%,(imports-exports)/imports) per-country on a customs basis.
This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers.
To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was.
I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient").
Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
It's getting better by the hour.
On March 18th Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal, said Russian hackers could access messages.
#signalgate
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Un papier de Gilbert Cette défraie la chronique.
Mais qui l'a lu depuis qu'on en parle?
Personne: à peine 100 lecteurs de plus aujourd'hui alors que Le Monde avait mis un lien et que la dépêche AFP a cité Telos. Qui va aux sources? Pas grand monde.
Un papier de Gilbert Cette défraie la chronique.
Mais qui l'a lu depuis qu'on en parle?
Personne: à peine 100 lecteurs de plus aujourd'hui alors que Le Monde avait mis un lien et que la dépêche AFP a cité Telos. Qui va aux sources? Pas grand monde.