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Re: trumps "reciprocal" is pegged rate 2:1(mostly)
by
franky1
on 07/04/2025, 10:34:39 UTC
im not even going to laugh at how your calculation thinks imports are both 439 and 143

(exports - imports) / imports = (438947.4 - 143545.7) / 438947.4 = ~0.673

Just admit it already, you divided by the wrong number (exports instead of imports). Imports is the larger number, thus deficit. How many more walls of text are you gonna post about your math error?

remember the formulae
x - m               x is export
____                m is import
  m

438947.4 -143545.7
_______   = 2.057893
    143545.7

im also not gonna laugh how you ignore the formula's own explainer that says  the answer overall is 2
im not also gonna laugh how even the source whitepaper the formula came from also comes to 2
im also not gonna laugh how chinese economists unrelated to trump came to same conclusion as to the reason for the RECIPRICAL rate of /2

..

you really need to realise the country rate(67) is done using completely different stats and math based on the MFN vs non MFN rate and other vat's and stuff

if you cant tell the difference between the country rate vs the reciprocal peg discount rate. and instead want to ignore doing real calculations and instead muddle up your own math of calling imports both numbers to get different result