US President Donald Trump has unveiled comprehensive new tariffs on imports from countries worldwide, as announced on Wednesday. According to FRANCE 24’s Washington DC correspondent, Fraser Jackson, certain economists have scrutinized the calculation method employed by the White House to determine the tariffs. These economists have expressed their astonishment at the complexity of the equations, highlighting that the US divided its trade deficit with each respective country by their imports to the US. This approach is considered cumbersome and lacking in precision.

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