im not even going to laugh at how YOUR calculation in that link thinks imports are both 439 and 143
Flip the subtraction around, you get -0.673, feel better now with that minus sign?
also exports from china is the bigger number.. exports from china are the imports to the US
and we all know exports from china is the bigger number
Not exports FROM China, exports TO China from the US is what's in the formula.
let m_i>0 represent total imports from country i, and let x_i>0 represent total exports
"country" is China for the purposes of this discussion. So it's imports FROM China, and exports [TO China].
It makes no sense that it would mean imports FROM China and exports FROM China.
im also not gonna laugh how you ignore the formula's own explainer page that says the answer overall is 2 as global average meaning 50% discount
It doesn't say that. I think you know that because you would have happily quoted it if it did.
the countries individual rate is done using completely different stats and math based on the MFN vs non MFN rate and other vat's and fees stuff
It's not. You're the only one trying to invent this alternate reality. You haven't provided any proof from Trump or his minions that they used anything other than the idiotic deficit formula to come up with the tariffs.