those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a country's goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., divided by how much America imports from that nation. The chart President Trump read ...

Under this formula, tariff rates would fluctuate depending on the size of the trade deficit. During a Rose Garden briefing, Trump held up a chart listing purported tariff rates for various ...

Trade economists ... on Thursday at the formula used by the White House to measure trade imbalances and inflict punishment on all its global trading partners. Handed a chart in the White House ...

Reporter The math in President Donald Trump ... ADVERTISEMENT Under the Trump administration’s formula, the reciprocal tariff is equal to the U.S. trade deficit divided by U.S. imports from ...

But Trump’s claim is misleading not only because some of the nations hit with tariffs haven’t levied any against the U.S., but also because the math apparently ... 99% of trade economists had never ...

When Trump paraded an oversized chart into the Rose Garden last week ... are not tariffs against the U.S., but a calculation of trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries.

After US President Donald Trump unveiled a massive tariff chart in the Rose Garden on Wednesday ... and non-tariff barriers”, sharing a maths formula on social media.