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It's entirely related to trade balance not those countries actual tariffs. If the US has a trade surplus they charge 10%. If the US has a trade deficit they charge 0.5x the differential as a percentage of trade.

If the USA is self sufficient & reasonably competitive then this encourages Americans to buy from within the USA. Where this is not the case we end up with musical chairs and importers stop buying cheap shirts from Cambodia and purchase them from somewhere with a lower tariff until they readjust the tariffs in a year. In locales where there is effectively no other choice, e.g. semiconductors from Taiwan, Americans will just be slogged with higher prices.

This is not normally how you would implement tariffs and will be interesting to watch.
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Bac0t 9mo ago

indonesia does a lot of export to US, our govt need to figure out something fast, just today gold reached the highest price ever here 👀

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H 9mo ago

Well the only thing you can do to reduce the tariff is reduce the trade surplus, but that doesn't benefit Indonesia at all, unless the USA starts magically selling stuff you're buying elsewhere cheaper.

The most important thing to do is ensure the economy isn't dependent on exporting (or importing) from one country. Of course I say this from Australia where 37% of our exports go to China.