We aren't paying that percentage of tariffs on all products from most of those countries.
From what I can find, there are certain, specific products, that are being set at the highest numbers you see there, but everything else is at much lower numbers.
There's a post by u/thekingofracine just above your post that goes into more detail.
I encourage you to read it. Basically, because that country had a high tarrif on American cigarettes (because they wanted their people to stop smoking) we're going to be stuck with insanely high aluminum imports.
Wow. We really have been getting ripped off. I always knew the trade deficit was bad, but I never imagined the cause of it was so skewed against us.
Boxed in by trade barriers, shackled by taxes, enslaved by interest rates. We really are being liberated.
We aren't paying that percentage of tariffs on all products from most of those countries.
From what I can find, there are certain, specific products, that are being set at the highest numbers you see there, but everything else is at much lower numbers.
There's a post by u/thekingofracine just above your post that goes into more detail.
I encourage you to read it. Basically, because that country had a high tarrif on American cigarettes (because they wanted their people to stop smoking) we're going to be stuck with insanely high aluminum imports.