How Taco were Trump’s tariffs?

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A commercial war was dominated by Donald Trump’s second state as an American president, but tracking his influence was not clear.

Many executive orders that impose escalating tariff rates, quickly followed the White House climbing – “Trump is always chicken”, or “Taco” theory.

On Thursday, American Trade Data provides the first opportunity to find out how Trump’s trade war, which was revealed on April 2, was revealed in this month. The “effective tariff rate” account is reduced by tangling the address rates to measure duties as a percentage of the actual import value.

The charts below are all incomplete. It constitutes an interactive test of Trump Taco’s theory. How carefully you can fill it?

The customs tariff for iron and steel was at the heart of Trump’s commercial agenda, as it tries to revive the manufacturing sector in the United States.

The official import data between iron and steel is characterized by raw materials and pre -manufactured items. Both were targeting Trump in his first term, but not with the same severity.

China has suffered some of the holiest definitions in Trump’s second state.

But Mexico, the largest commercial partner in the United States, was also an early target of Trump’s definitions in February. How do you compare their prices?

Effective tariff rates vary greatly depending on the product category.

Some of them, such as knitted clothes, have relatively high duties for several years. Others, such as electrical equipment and games, have risen, under Trump’s new tariff system of traditional low levels.

But some unexpected groups emerge. Take what happened, for example, to the effective tariff rate for “umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seats sticks, whip, horseback riding and parts of them”?

The European Union has been dealt with as one block by the Trump tariff. But in practice, individual countries are subject to completely different tariff rates based on the type of goods they export to the United States.

This graph compares the effective tariff rate in Ireland with the average European Union as a whole.

Trump argued on “Tahrir Day” that his higher tariff will collect “trillion and dollars to reduce our taxes and pay our national debt.”

The graph below shows the teams made by Trump’s trade war for American customs revenues.

The higher definitions increased customs revenues. But the revenue created in April is a small beer in the context of American public public, equivalent to less than 4 percent of the typical federal spending.