McDonald_69Holy f*ck!
"The tariffs are not broken down by country, they're broken down by top level internet domain."
Martin Hoffmann@McDonald_69 Sort of but not really. Those two-letter top-level domains are based on ISO 3166 country codes. That standard is a decent compromise defining what is and isn’t a country. Basing your list on it is a pretty good start. The more interesting thing is what they deleted from the list rather than what they left on.
But also, the list is just for show. The actual order declares a 10% tariff for everyone and then has an annex with higher tariffs for some countries plus a few exceptions.
Konstantin Weddige@partim @McDonald_69 it's a terrible list to start with, if you are a government, that has access to their own Department of State.
RickReterson@weddige @partim @McDonald_69 imho the standards for senior officials governing the most powerful nation to ever exist should be higher than those for undergrads on their first poli sci group project
Roger Moore@weddige @partim @McDonald_69
This gets to the underlying problem, which is that Trump doesn't trust the existing government bureaucracy. The bureaucrats have more loyalty to the law than to the President, which is why Trump is trying to eliminate them and (presumably) replace them with loyalists. Until then he depends on outsiders like DOGE, who he trusts more.
This gets to the underlying problem, which is that Trump doesn't trust the existing government bureaucracy. The bureaucrats have more loyalty to the law than to the President, which is why Trump is trying to eliminate them and (presumably) replace them with loyalists. Until then he depends on outsiders like DOGE, who he trusts more.
Ash_Crow@partim @McDonald_69 it's not really a decent start and makes little sense. Why do the overseas parts of European countries have separate codes (eg for France Réunion or French Guiana) but not Alaska and Hawaii for the US?
@Ash_Crow This list is the most internationally recognised compromise of the set of all countries. So, even if you disagree and apply a different definition of country, it is still a good place to start and then add and remove according to your own definition.
Saying “it makes little sense” because there are – and always will be – a couple of complicated corner cases feels disingenuous.
surfguard@partim It's a good start for me, if I wanted to get a list of all countries. For the administration of the USA it is not close to where they should start, let alone to where they should end. I mean, seriously: You're not able to tell what's a sovereign country and what not? Sort that out first before you think about tariffs. (And we know how they calculated the alleged tariffs of other countries. All of this is cringeworthy.) @McDonald_69