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Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots

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Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on countries with the largest trade deficits with the U.S. Those tariffs are due to take effect on April 9 for 60 countries, with peak rates around 50 percent .

But some of the countries on the list puzzled experts and officials, who pointed out that Trump was targeting uninhabited islands, some of them exporting nothing and populated with penguins.

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52

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semi-formal

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English

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62

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