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The headlines are seeing like all kinds of different stuff, right?

Especially when it comes to China.

And like the headlines are seeing that Trump wanted to put a tariff of 144% on China.

But what I suspect is going on, because that doesn't make any sense.

Okay, 144% tariff, that would mean that China would be giving away all of their goods and products

and also losing 44% of their revenue. So they would be taking a

loss on the product, a loss on the revenue to create that product and the revenue for selling

that product. That's a stupid deal, which I think is fraudulent, right? The 145% number, or the 144%

number, depends on what article you're reading, seems like it's

fraudulent because what I suspect that they're, that they've done is they've just added up

the increases of all of the sectors of goods.

So they've taken the food imports, the technology imports, whatever else China is importing.

Dave, you know more about what China imports in the United States or other services imports and added all of those together.

And then that lands on the 145% number.

You get what I'm saying?

But it seems like it's happening is certain sections of imported goods and services are all being added

together to get that 145% tariff increase. The actual overall number is much lower. For example,

you can add a 50% tariff increase on for just an example, soap imports, right? But soap isn't the only thing that you're importing and that

would only affect the overall imports by like 1% right it's a super sneaky way to create like industry

headlines right and blow the whole thing up like oh my god Trump wants to put a 145% increase on tariffs on

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