> I haven't heard a single analyst find sense in how tariff levels were set per country - someone did notice that it appeared a very simple formula had been applied, one that has no basis in economic theory.
I find it funny people keep talking about someone figuring out it out when they actually published it, including the reasoning with references at the bottom: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
People figured it out first that what they'd done was
Then they published the above article trying to claim it was more complex than that, except people pointed out that the formula they gave reduces to So it was a rather foolish effort.