The truth is not close to Trump’s lies and nonsense.
Average tariff rates charged by G-7 nations:
USA: 1.6%
EU: 1.6%
UK: 1.6%
Italy: 1.6%
Germany: 1.6%
France: 1.6%
Japan: 1.4%
Canada: 0.8%
(Source: https://t.co/77SZZyqeGZ) https://t.co/qYUJEYd6qB— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 9, 2018
This has a chart:
Trump is painting a highly inaccurate tariff picture – wrongly suggesting everyone else has high tariffs while US has none.
Here's a World Bank graph of trade-weighted average tariffs for the G7 countries – with US nearly identical to UK/Italy/France/Ger, higher than Japan/Can. pic.twitter.com/nuTkj7Xl6L
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 9, 2018
Sad! 