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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Trump held up a sign with made-up numbers for "currency manipulation and trade barriers"
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 06:13 PM
Apr 2025


There's a full list on Twitter from a White House account; it will amaze you to see that every single country in the world has a figure of at least 10%. No, really, it's just coincidence that 95 countries all charge exactly 10%.

And did you know that mighty Saint Pierre and Miquelon, with it's oh-so-independent trade policy, has a tariff/currency manipulation/trade barrier figure of 99%? Well, it's obvious when you look here:
https://wits.worldbank.org/tariff/trains/en/country/SPM/partner/USA/product/all
Look at all those zeros! That's just a ruse - they've taken the "99%", rounded it up to "100%", and the 1 has dropped off the left. Or something.

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