I read somewhere that the theory is countries that don't purchase ad much from the us as the us buys from said country got more tarrifs because in trumps mind they're losing money.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It's not a theory, they published the formula, that's just straight up what it is.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reporters could recreate the entire list exactly by asking ChatGPT/Grok/Claude/Gemini what would be an easy way to tariff other nations.
The tariff % is simply the US trade deficit with that country divided by imports from it.

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok