The White House’s new tariffs announced Wednesday were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced a minimum 10% tariff for all U.S. trading partners. To calculate the tariffs, the White House used a formula that focused on trade deficits and total exports.

published an overview of the calculations on its site with a math formula it used to calculate each country’s reciprocal tariff. Here's how that formula breaks down: For example, the U.S ...

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of ...

The formula used to calculate President Donald Trump’s new batch of tariffs announced Wednesday is based on dividing the U.S.’s trade deficit with a given country divided by their total exports to the ...

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