{"id":16551,"date":"2025-04-06T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:18:19","slug":"tariff-rates-trump-ascribes-to-other-countries-are-vastly-higher-than-world-trade-data-shows-by-highly-purposeful-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=16551","title":{"rendered":"Tariff rates Trump ascribes to other countries are vastly higher than World Trade data shows [BY HIGHLY PURPOSEFUL DESIGN]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-06-at-9.17.23-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-06-at-9.17.23-AM.png 581w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-06-at-9.17.23-AM-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"RenderKeyPoints-header\"><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-list\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0announced an aggressive, far-reaching \u201creciprocal\u201d tariff policy.<\/li>\n<li>A Cato Institute report based on World Trade Organization data said the trade-weighted average tariff rates imposed by most countries are much lower than the Trump administration said.<\/li>\n<li>For example, the administration said China charges the U.S. a tariff of 67%. The Cato report said China\u2019s 2023 trade-weighted average tariff rate was 3%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/04\/trumps-tariff-rates-for-other-countries-larger-than-word-trade-data.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/04\/trumps-tariff-rates-for-other-countries-larger-than-word-trade-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}