The formula used to calculate President Donald Trump’s new batch of tariffs announced Wednesday is based on dividing the U.S.’s trade deficit with a given country divided by their total ...

President Donald Trump's new tariffs vary greatly between countries. The Office of the US Trade Representative explained the pretty simple formula used. The math puts a heavy emphasis on trade ...

A formula from the U.S. trade representative's office showing how to calculate a tariff rate to eliminate a deficit with a trading partner.

The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published an overview of the calculations on its site with a math formula it used to calculate each country’s reciprocal tariff.

President Trump's new tariffs on more than 100 countries used the same simple formula to calculate the rate for each of them. The formula’s central value is the trade deficit, the difference ...